Rural America's working-age adults die at wildly higher rates than their counterparts in cities. Why?

[LT Barclay]

25. Don't forget more pesticide exposure, higher reliance on hunting and fishing for sustenance

Freshwater fish have up to 300 times the concentration of PFASs than is currently considered “safe”. I don’t know about other game animals but I would think they are contaminated also.
I read somewhere a few years back that the meat source with the fastest growth in sales was raccoon meat because a whole animal was only $5.