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rurallib

(64,894 posts)
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 10:25 AM 6 hrs ago

Iowa's Cancer Rate Is Skyrocketing. Our Tests Prove Why.

via blogforiowa.com

An excellent video from More Perfect Union on YouTube.com: (14 minutes)

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edit to add link to story on blogforiowa:
https://blogforiowa.com/2026/06/10/iowa-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way/
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Lovie777

(24,097 posts)
1. I didn't view the video.............
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 10:39 AM
6 hrs ago

but I wanted to say something.

The White Supremacists here in our country, starting with shithole and the Republican party (although they take their shot, vaccines, medications, et al.) including RFK, jr. advocate against medical use of these items of any kind and duly approved pesticides.

Therefore in reality, they are killing off their own cult. Think about that.

rurallib

(64,894 posts)
3. yep - their party begs for more babies
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 10:46 AM
6 hrs ago

but once they are born they offer nothing for those babies to grow into healthy humans. Nor do they offer anything for those babies to learn reality.

It is like they enjoy watching them suffer and die.

chouchou

(3,387 posts)
2. Jesus Christ! There's 10 times more Nitrates and other crap in the testing of animals and humans in Iowa"
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 10:44 AM
6 hrs ago

...and the corporations are throwing money to suppress that $%^%#$ stuff.
Yes...this person is Johnny-Pissed-off Bigly!

rurallib

(64,894 posts)
4. And they are pretty open about it but no one seems to care.
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 10:49 AM
6 hrs ago

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Chris Jones seems to be making some headway into that zombie cult that accepts this.

I am so hoping his crusade on water will end in a victory for him as Ag Secretary.
Then he will probably have to battle the legislature most of whom owe their position to the Farm Bureau.

rurallib

(64,894 posts)
6. Well, some anyway - at least it is on the radar
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 11:04 AM
5 hrs ago

Which in itself is a true surprise. Hope there is a groundswell in the next few months.

A close friend of mine just died of cancer in the past week. I have no doubt the reason was living in the country

FakeNoose

(42,771 posts)
7. Screenshot
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 11:29 AM
5 hrs ago

From the Blog for Iowa ...



Link: https://blogforiowa.com/2026/06/10/iowa-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way/

Wow their cancer rates are among the highest in the nation ... and it's mostly from exposure to nitrogen fertilizers.

JT45242

(4,197 posts)
8. We had someone from speak to our church about cancer in Iowa part of 99 county initiative
Wed Jun 10, 2026, 11:31 AM
5 hrs ago

They are strictly forbidden to discuss potential causes of the high cancer rates.

When someone said "It's the nitrates in the water from pig and corn farms" the woman said I cannot comment on that.

this is a professional health researcher with the flagship university of the state of Iowa under a gag order when she is supposed to be doing public outreach.

I am sickened every time I think about how this will affect me and my children.

My mother in law has had 4 different types of unreleated cancers -- she has lived near a plastics manufacturer that dumped stuff into groundwater in northwest Ohio, downwind from paper mills in NC, along the ohio river near the WV/PA borders where all the runoff from coal mines and stuff from Pittsburgh down was dumped into the river, and then Indiana.

And now for 13 years -- we have lived in this unregulated cess pool of pig shit -- that really is all that Iowa is at this point. I giant cess pool of pig shit.

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