“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.
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