Cancer
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1 week agoCommunities Near Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Have Higher Cancer Rates
Residents near CAFOs in California, Texas, and Iowa experience higher cancer rates linked to pollution from these operations.
My older brother has worked with pigs his entire adult life, managing about 70,000 of them across five counties, Faaborg says. But we got to a point where he went from laughing at me to saying: well, I guess maybe I'll quit my job and help you out. Now he's the most dedicated, says Katherine Jernigan, director of the Transfarmation Project at Mercy for Animals, a non-profit that helped the Faaborgs make the switch and set up their new business, 1100 Farm.