“Fifteen miles from here, 265,000 gallons of nitrogen fertilizer spilled into the river and ended up killing – 50 miles of the river – 800,000 fish. That case was sitting on the Attorney General of Iowa’s desk for one year with no response.”
“Cancer rates in Iowa are rising faster than anywhere else in the country. Politicians blame individual choices, but the real villain is the industrial farming covering the state. We went, tested the water, and found cancer causing levels of chemicals running through Iowa.
If you’d like to get a free nitrate testing kit, you can request one from Nitrate Watch: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA… Once you test your water, log your results in their database to build a publicly sourced dataset that can’t be covered up.”
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I generally dislike getting news and analysis from videos and would rather read. But this video is a ginormous exception. It. Is. Wonderful. Cogent, easy to follow, well-paced, tells the story. Sooo worth the time. I wanted to stomp and cheer at the end. Thank you for sharing it here!
And because the following rarely gets said these days, I’ll add that even if Iowa’s massive farm pollution did not cause cancer and other diseases, which it does, sending that pollution south is a rotten thing to do to the residents of the Gulf and their fishing industry. Iowa is largely responsible for the Gulf Dead Zone, and we are shameless now about not caring.
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