Mounting Evidence Linking Industrial Farming to Cancer

Mounting evidence linking industrial farming to cancer

From pesticide labels to a new report out of Iowa, there’s been a lot of news in the past week on how industrial farming may contribute to cancer in the US. TNL’s Alex Hinton breaks it all down. Read more: Even when EPA finds a pesticide cancer risk, agency rarely requires warnings Scientists call for urgent action on glyphosate, citing strong links to cancer Iowa cancer rates surge — farm chemicals are a key risk, new report finds   The post WA…

Iowa’s high cancer rate linked to nitrate, pesticides, PFAS and radon, new report finds

This article originally appeared in Sentient Media. When Iowa resident Chris Henning was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, her youngest sister and brother-in-law had already died of cancer 13 years earlier and her father had been treated for lung cancer. Since her diagnosis, another one of her sisters died of cancer and two more women in her family have received cancer diagnoses. But testing indicated that the sisters’ breast cancers are not due to…