Iowa's extremely polluted water - who's to blame?
Channel: IowaCCI
Date: 2020-12-08

Industrial agriculture is the number-one contributor to water pollution in Iowa's streams, rivers, and lakes.

You might be surprised to learn this. Many people think that our water pollution comes from other sources. That's because the factory farm industry likes to spread misinformation to protect their profits. They say that our water pollution comes from everything from golf courses to flocks of geese, but the fact is that Iowa's extreme water pollution comes from industrialized animal production.

Iowa has over 10,000 factory farms, known to the industry as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations. These are not your
mom-and-pop family farms that sell produce at your local farmer's market. Instead, these are industrial animal production operations, owned by corporations that pollute like a factory.

And they're making us sick.