How dangerous is a pesticide? It depends on who you ask
A health care crisis has been quietly building in rural counties throughout the Midwest.Take Missouri. The Top 10 counties with the highest rates of cancer are all rural. And access to doctors, nurses and clinicians, while always lower than in cities, has grown increasingly limited as hospitals throughout the region have closed.Add to this the presence of pesticides. They are seen as a vital tool in ensuring that millions of acres of farmland yield the soybeans, corn, wheat and other crops that...
