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In Iowa, there are more concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) than grocery stores. Yet for most of the public, the location of nearby CAFOs and the amount of manure they may be producing is inaccessible. Until now.
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We built an interactive map that allows Iowans to find factory farms in their own backyards.
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ALT The Core: We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.
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We're investigating the hidden costs of factory farming across Iowa. Check out more reporting, explore our interactive map and sign up for our biweekly Inside Iowa newsletter:
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Planetary emissions are already in a dangerous phase, scientists warn.
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While cancer rates across the country are dropping, Iowa has the fastest growing cancer rate in the United States. Is industrial agriculture to blame?
We went to Iowa to find out.
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Only 2 percent of the ocean appears to benefit substantially from marine conservation areas, challenging a key metric of the 30x30 campaign. @josephbwinters reports via @grist:
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In Iowa, there are more factory farms than grocery stores. Yet for most of the public, their locations and the amount of manure they may be producing is inaccessible. Until now.
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When the factory farming model came to Iowa, there was wide public pushback. But today, researcher @AustinFrerick says the worst actors continue to thrive.
As water pollution in the state grows, so do Iowa’s cancer rates.
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Created in partnership with the documentary organization @SingleStoneMed
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We mapped every factory farm in Iowa. Here's what the data reveals.
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While cancer rates across the country are dropping, Iowa has the fastest growing cancer rate in the United States. Is industrial agriculture to blame?
We went to Iowa to find out.
Created in partnership with the documentary organization @SingleStoneMed
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Forests are also being systematically destroyed by the agriculture industry, and this rampant deforestation imperils the lives of plants, animals and humans alike.
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Could animal welfare and clean water motivate American voters?
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The USDA has announced a massive meat recall on more than 167,000 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products that officials said were produced without federal inspection. Danielle Langenfeld reports for @thehill:
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Concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, are central to Iowa’s rise as an agricultural powerhouse.
As the number of CAFOs skyrocketed, the state’s cancer rates, which have been linked to nitrate pollution from these farm sites, also climbed.
ALT Infographic showing how the number of CAFOs in Iowa have grown since 1990. Text reads The number of large CAFOs in Iowa has grown more than fivefold since 1990.
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Want to look up sites in your zip code? Check out the interactive map:
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Iowa has the most factory farms in the United States, but where those farms spread manure is confidential. So we decided to map them all.
Here’s what we learned 🧵
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Our newly released GIS map allows Iowans to find factory farms in their own backyard.
Try it yourself:
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