We're spending $600,000,000/year? On a Nutrient Reduction Strategy that in 14 years is not improving our water? Sixteen years ago, 63% of he voters approved a 3/8 cents bumping the sales tax to improve our environment, including water quality that has never been implemented? And we're cutting Iowa's water sensoring network? Call me a radical, but I think it's time for a change.
This administration and legislators behave like drug dealers who are using too much of their products. They’re hooked on the drug money provided by their suppliers. The international agrochemical companies and their investors profit, while our people suffer and die. There ought to be laws. Oh, there are, but Attorney General Bird and Ag Secretary Naig won’t acknowledge or enforce them. The Republicans averting this issue are complicit in the destruction and misery they’ve inflicted.
For seven years, "Monsanto Mike" has been blowing that smoke, and the smoke is getting darker and thicker. One reason I'm donating to Chris's campaign is for therapy. To all readers of these comments who have supported Chris's campaign already, and/or have done water work of your own, THANK YOU.
Great work, as always, Chris. I live in MN and up here the Dems are just as pro Big Ag as the GOP. The big (sob) story now is the high cost of inputs and how the Mideast oil crisis is wreaking havoc on farmers. Never a mention of what inputs are (and what oil has to do with it) and why farmers need more and more inputs (and oil) every year. Industrial agriculture is like an addict, the more bad shit it uses the more bad shit it needs just to survive. I don't see anyone in politics taking on the factory-farm system, not in farm country or anywhere else. Seems they're all bought.
Why do we not hear about these facts in the daily Iowa TV station or national TV station news and the terribly adverse health consequences. Channel 8, 12 or 5. ?
They did mention it in a news report that took about 5 seconds three years ago. That’s good enough. It’s been covered. Don’t try to turn them into a bunch of scaremongering harpies.
To leave Iowa because of the political milieu is, IMHO, virtue signaling; besides, the politics inevitably roll back and forth. But to leave so your children and grandchildren do not grow up in a toxic environment laden with carcinogens can be a rational decision.
Important info, Chris. It’s outrageous that these sensors may go away. I’ve been checking them daily, as well as DMWW output quality. If we had real LEADERS, they would prioritize this problem. It’s killing us.
I’ve used strips to do testing in “non-peak” times. Have also seen elevated results. It’s cause for alarm. Unfortunately, this isn’t shocking anymore but it’s a travesty. My Iowa City tap water is testing near 10ppm.
There is no end to the end for Republicans. Their wheels are frozen in road ruts and they fear the wheel will never come loose. it’s unfortunate. They can’t comprehend the truth. Maybe it’s because they never took an oath. Republicans put your hand on the good book and tell us the truth for better or worse.
Why hasn't anyone considered putting up solar farms on highly erodible ground, instead of corn for ethanol? Ethanol has never made sense environmentally. We are poisoning ourselves for grotesquely subsidized idiocy. Naig should be offered a big glass of water from each river or creek with off the chart nitrate levels. Despicable.
We're spending $600,000,000/year? On a Nutrient Reduction Strategy that in 14 years is not improving our water? Sixteen years ago, 63% of he voters approved a 3/8 cents bumping the sales tax to improve our environment, including water quality that has never been implemented? And we're cutting Iowa's water sensoring network? Call me a radical, but I think it's time for a change.
Astonishingly troubling. So many in Iowa’s political power structures have been silent for too long. It's time for a change.
This administration and legislators behave like drug dealers who are using too much of their products. They’re hooked on the drug money provided by their suppliers. The international agrochemical companies and their investors profit, while our people suffer and die. There ought to be laws. Oh, there are, but Attorney General Bird and Ag Secretary Naig won’t acknowledge or enforce them. The Republicans averting this issue are complicit in the destruction and misery they’ve inflicted.
It’s time for them to drink the water.
For seven years, "Monsanto Mike" has been blowing that smoke, and the smoke is getting darker and thicker. One reason I'm donating to Chris's campaign is for therapy. To all readers of these comments who have supported Chris's campaign already, and/or have done water work of your own, THANK YOU.
Great work, as always, Chris. I live in MN and up here the Dems are just as pro Big Ag as the GOP. The big (sob) story now is the high cost of inputs and how the Mideast oil crisis is wreaking havoc on farmers. Never a mention of what inputs are (and what oil has to do with it) and why farmers need more and more inputs (and oil) every year. Industrial agriculture is like an addict, the more bad shit it uses the more bad shit it needs just to survive. I don't see anyone in politics taking on the factory-farm system, not in farm country or anywhere else. Seems they're all bought.
An activist friend suggests it may be even more powerful if we demand CLEAN WATER, instead of promoting "water quality." Semantics - but stronger!
I think there’s a chapter in my book titled Demand Clean Water Now
Why do we not hear about these facts in the daily Iowa TV station or national TV station news and the terribly adverse health consequences. Channel 8, 12 or 5. ?
They did mention it in a news report that took about 5 seconds three years ago. That’s good enough. It’s been covered. Don’t try to turn them into a bunch of scaremongering harpies.
They do once in a while, at the end of a sentence, and when the next story pops up on the TV screen.
Thank you! This helps us convince friends and relatives to get themselves an RO system but more importantly to VOTE.
To leave Iowa because of the political milieu is, IMHO, virtue signaling; besides, the politics inevitably roll back and forth. But to leave so your children and grandchildren do not grow up in a toxic environment laden with carcinogens can be a rational decision.
I feel smoke up my ass .... The sensors are rapidly fadin'. Chris Jones for sensor censor. Art Cullen for Secretary of Media..
Don Kingfield
Important info, Chris. It’s outrageous that these sensors may go away. I’ve been checking them daily, as well as DMWW output quality. If we had real LEADERS, they would prioritize this problem. It’s killing us.
I’ve used strips to do testing in “non-peak” times. Have also seen elevated results. It’s cause for alarm. Unfortunately, this isn’t shocking anymore but it’s a travesty. My Iowa City tap water is testing near 10ppm.
There is no end to the end for Republicans. Their wheels are frozen in road ruts and they fear the wheel will never come loose. it’s unfortunate. They can’t comprehend the truth. Maybe it’s because they never took an oath. Republicans put your hand on the good book and tell us the truth for better or worse.
I know it's stopgap and patchwork, but who do we contact if a group wants to fund a nitrate sensor?
Izaak Walton League
Why hasn't anyone considered putting up solar farms on highly erodible ground, instead of corn for ethanol? Ethanol has never made sense environmentally. We are poisoning ourselves for grotesquely subsidized idiocy. Naig should be offered a big glass of water from each river or creek with off the chart nitrate levels. Despicable.
Keep punching Chris. I applaud your message. Now, will rural Iowa do the same?