GOP Gov. Candidate Zach Lahn on Herbicide Glyphosate: I Was One of the First People to Say, That Was the Wrong Move

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LAHN: "Well I would just say first that I was one of the first people to come out and say that this was the wrong move to sign that executive order I think that if we could give the president the advice on that that he would understand that better But what we have focused on a campaign that’s focused on Iowa issues specifically and this is something that Iowans are facing We have the fastest rate of new cancer anywhere in the country number one And if you move out of the state of Iowa to say, a state like Nevada your chance of getting cancer any given year goes down by forty percent These are very specific Iowa-based issues and we’ve been focused on them High nitrate load in water is one of the top causes of colon cancer bladder cancer, ovarian cancer and we’ve got some of the highest levels in the country if not the highest levels So we are focused on providing incentives to farmers real incentives, to adopt different types of practices to allow them the ability to really change what they’re doing to stop these products from getting into the streams in the first place clean up our water at the source and help farmers make sure that they’re not losing Money by doing it by providing real incentives that help them actually make money by adopting these practices. Because it really goes back to farmers are operating on razor thin margins right now and the idea to experiment with something new is not very appealing when you could be the first in a line of five generations that loses your family farm"