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Iowa’s Cancer Rate Is Skyrocketing. Our Tests Prove Why.
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13:58Now PlayingCancer 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:
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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