If not compost, farms with livestock can use pumpkins as feed; cows and pigs will happily gorge on pumpkins. If pumpkin dealers don’t keep animals, they may wind up donating pumpkins to local zoos, where they’re used as food or as entertainment. In 2022, The Country Barn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, permitted visitors to eradicate pumpkins with sledgehammers or launch them into the air as part of Pumpkin Demolition Day.