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Communities Near Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Have Higher Cancer Rates (truthout.org)

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People living near concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in California, Texas and Iowa suffer from higher rates of cancer, suggesting that the air and water pollution from the massive farms may be playing a role, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Environmental Research, comes just weeks after a years-long report in Iowa found the state’s agricultural…

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[–] lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Wow “animal feeding operations”… Really trying to make it sound like owning animals to make profit from their corpses is somehow philanthropy