Corn is growing, but Iowa towns are not

As a 70-year-old fifth-generation Iowan, I couldn’t be more disillusioned with the current totalitarian Republican Party.

I know that poor management and greed over need has shrunk the Western Ogallala Aquifer to near extinction and the corporate Republican-leaning farm industry here in Iowa is trying to do the same for us. They aren’t satisfied with polluting our streams, rivers and wells with excess fertilizers to grow 50% more corn than is needed for food. Now they (Terry Branstad and Bruce Rastetter) want to pump billions of gallons of aquifer water from reserves that took eons of time to fill so they can pump ethanol waste CO2 to North Dakota.

I don’t know, but has the current industrial farming model repopulated your small towns? It hasn’t done so for the small town I grew up in.

The next time you hear that corporate commercial Iowa doesn’t grow corn, corn grows Iowa, do yourself a favor and look around your small town.

Patrick Nulty

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