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Secret Plan to Dump Slaughterhouse Waste Blindsided Residents of Iowa’s Loess Hills

In a matter of days, a dirt pit the size of five football fields appeared next to the weathered headstones of Center Cemetery in Castana, Iowa. The excavation site sits on the edge of the Loess Hills, a 200-mile corridor of craggy bluffs and ridges bordering the Mississippi River valley in western Iowa. The hills, […]

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