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Jason Grostic, a Michigan farmer, said he was on track to run a fully self-sufficient operation and open a storefront for his beef products before PFAS contamination turned his world upside down. "We were going to be pasture-to-plate; we were trying to be those people," Grostic said. "And it never happened, and it never will."

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