It’s the state known as America’s agricultural powerhouse.
But recently, Iowa earned a more sinister reputation, becoming the state with the fastest growing rate of new cancers.
It’s estimated 21,000 new cancer cases will be diagnosed in Iowa this year – and 6,100 residents will die from the disease.
That’s more than double the rate of new cases of cancer 40 years ago, despite the fact the population has only grown by 11 percent.
The trend has widely been blamed on the high alcohol use in the state, but local doctors say the very chemicals used to help power Iowa’s farming industry may be in part fueling its cancer crisis.
DailyMail.com visited Iowa and spoke to locals, some who had cancer themselves or whose communities had been rocked by the disease, and doctors and medics on the frontlines of what they’re calling an epidemic.
Soon to be known as The Monsanto Genocide.