Image by James Baltz. Think “revolution…” and Iowa does not spring to mind– a stolid, land-locked, agricultural titan, deeply red, where hogs outnumber voters nearly eight to one. But tariffs have tanked Iowa’s economy. Intensive farming has depleted half of its rich topsoil. 48 million hogs spew 107 million tons of manure annually– mostly untreated– […]
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