Iowa Crops Look Like Food — But No One’s Eating

Inside a system that traps farmers and screws up the planet

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I was in Iowa last week shooting for the PBS NewsHour Weekend “Future of Food” series. There are some good things going on — and you’ll see them in the segment, which will run later this summer or fall — but I left feeling depressed as hell. It’s bad enough that Iowa plays an outsized…