Source: Zack Budryk, THE HILL, 5/10/21



Farming-related pollution leads to nearly 18,000 deaths a year in the U.S., according to a new study published Monday. Reduced air quality from the agriculture industry results in 17,900 deaths annually, with ammonia accounting for 69 percent of those deaths, researchers wrote in the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many of the deaths occurred in California, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and the upper Midwest Corn Belt, researchers found, noting that about 80 percent of the deaths are related to pollution from animal agriculture.

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