The Des Moines River is not well. Decades of fertilizer runoff from Iowa’s farms have poisoned it with nitrates, and the effects are being felt statewide: surges in toxic algae blooms, drinking and swimming advisories and cancer rates that are the country’s second-highest. If the ailing water possesses an animistic soul, it may feel something like bitterness as it flows by the old city library building in downtown Des Moines. Since 2011, the riverside Beaux-Arts building has been operated by the World Food Prize Foundation as a temple to industrial agriculture and the practices and chemicals that have brought Iowa’s rivers and lakes to ruin. In the garden stands a bronze of its patron saint,...
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Letter from Des Moines: Cary Fowler, the World Food Prize and the Ghost of Norman Borlaug
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