all the animals were dying near the steel company. they found that it was fluoride killing them fluoride is a byproduct of steel and aluminum production.  government made them put scrubbers in the chimney at the steel factory. this collected the fluoride cakes, and stopped it from going out as pollution. but then the steel company had billions of tons of hazardous wast on their hands. government said you can't dump it because it's deadly.  the owner of the steel company also owns the american medical association, the american dental association, and cdc.  instead of paying to dispose of the hazardous waste properly. he forced the government to buy it from him, and put it in the drinking water, so that it would make it's way into the sewers to kill rats, and stop the spread of imaginary plague.
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