Food Plants on Fire

Via Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • In 2019, there were only two reported fires at U.S. food processing plants
  • From January 2021 to April 21, 2022, at least 20 such fires were reported — a sizable jump — and they seem to be accelerating in recent weeks
  • People are beginning to take notice of these seemingly random fires and accidents that are occurring with increasing frequency at food processing plants across the U.S.
  • Meanwhile, leaders around the world have warned that, due to the war in Ukraine — which is considered the world’s bread basket — food shortages are coming, while disruptions to shipping and increased fertilizer prices are also driving up food costs
  • Could this all be coincidence, driving up food prices to record highs and causing food shortages, or is something more sinister going on?

We’re living in an unprecedented time when strange happenings continue to occur in quick succession. In March 2021, a massive container ship became wedged across the Suez Canal in Egypt — blocking “an artery of world trade,” triggering a rise in oil prices and leading to fallout that affected shipping around the globe.1

Now, war has disrupted supplies further, driving up fertilizer prices and, in turn, food costs. Meanwhile, Bill Gates has been buying up U.S. farmland at a frenzied pace and owns more farmland than any other private farmer in the country.2 Leaders around the world have warned that, due to the war in Ukraine — which is considered the world’s bread basket — food shortages are coming.

On top of that, the Really Graceful video posted above points out, cases of bird flu have been reported in the U.S., with millions of poultry killed off by farmers as a result. “All of these incidents have driven up the price of items at your grocery store,”3 the video notes, but there’s yet another series of events that is somehow even stranger — a rash of fires at U.S. food processing plants.

Could this all be coincidence, driving up food prices to record highs and causing food shortages, or is something more sinister going on?

Fires and Accidents at Food Processing Plants: Coincidence?

In the whole of 2019, there were only two reported fires at U.S. food processing plants. From January 2021 to April 21, 2022, at least 20 were reported — a sizable jump — and they seem to be accelerating in recent weeks.4 Here’s a timeline of some of the events:

August 9, 2019 — A fire destroyed part of the Tyson Foods beef plant in Holcomb, Kansas.5
January 12, 2021 — A fire destroyed the Deli Star meat plant in Fayetteville, Illinois.6 In fighting the blaze, firefighters used most of the water in the town’s water towers, leading to a boil order for residents until the water could be replenished.
January 21, 2021 — The Washington Potato Company plant was declared a total loss after a fire started in the plant’s dehydrator.7
July 25, 2021 — A three-alarm fire occurred at a Kellogg plant in Memphis, Tennessee, drawing 170 emergency personnel to the scene.8
August 24, 2021 — Severe damage was reported following a fire at Patak Meat Processing facility in Cobb County, Georgia,9 leading to a temporary closure.
September 12, 2021 — A five-alarm fire broke out at JBS USA’s beef processing plant in Grand Island, Nebraska.10 The plant slaughters about 5% of U.S. cattle. “This year, processing capacity has already been squeezed by COVID disruptions and labor availability and the industry can ill afford losing a big processing plant like this,” Steiner Consulting told Reuters at the time.11
November 29, 2021 — A fire broke out at Maid Rite Steak Company, a meat processing plant in Scott, Pennsylvania.12
December 12, 2021 — West Side food processing plant was left with smoke damage estimated at over $100,000 due to a fire that broke out. No one was working at the plant at the time of the fire.13
January 2, 2022 — A fire at Van Drunen Farms Tuthill freeze-drying plant in Momence, Illinois, suffered extensive damage from a fire, with a company official describing it as a “total loss.”14
January 14, 2022 — An explosion and fire occurred at the Cargill-Nutrena feed mill in Lecompte, Louisiana, burning for 12 hours.15
February 3, 2022 — Fire swept through Wisconsin River Meats in Mauston, Wisconsin, causing a near total loss.16
February 17, 2022 — A fire broke out at the Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) in Claypool, Indiana.17 LDC is the largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in the U.S.
February 22, 2022 — A boiler explosion triggered a fire at Shearer’s Foods near Hermiston, Oregon. Company officials estimated it would take 15 to 18 months to restart production.18 The plant made snacks including potato chips, tortillas, whole grain chips, cheese curls/puffs, popcorn, pork rinds, rice crisps, wafers, cookies, and both sweet and savory biscuits.
March 13, 2022 — A Hot Pockets plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas, was shut down after a fire started inside a production line cooler.19
March 16, 2022 — A massive fire at a Walmart fulfillment center in Plainfield, Indiana, caused the closure of the facility. In April, the company announced it would not be reopening the facility, affecting the jobs of 1,132 employees.20 The center stored food, clothes and cardboard.21
March 28, 2022 — A fire at Maricopa Food Pantry in Maricopa, Arizona, leading to the destruction of more than 50,000 pounds of food.22
March 31, 2022 — Rio Fresh, an onion warehouse facility in south Texas, was damaged by a structure fire.23
April 11, 2022 — A fire broke out at East Conway Beef & Pork in Conway, New Hampshire, destroying the building and killing two cows.24
April 13, 2022 — A plane crashed into the Gem State processing facility in Heyburn, Idaho.25 The plant made dehydrated potato flakes, flours, dices, slices and shreds.26
April 13, 2022 — A four-alarm fire occurred at Taylor Farms in Salinas, California, drawing nearly 100 firefighters from 22 fire units. The facility, which makes bagged salads and chopped fresh vegetable kits,27 was in the process of restarting operations after being closed for the winter.28
April 18, 2022 — The headquarters of Azure Standard in Dufur, Oregon, was destroyed in a fire. Azure Standard the largest independent distributor of organic and health foods in the U.S.29
April 30 2022 — A soybean processing tank caught fire at Perdue Farms in Chesapeake, Virginia.30

What’s Behind Rising Food Prices?

People are beginning to take notice of these seemingly random fires and accidents that are occurring with increasing frequency at food processing plants across the U.S. As noted by Really Graceful:31

“We’ve got all these factors at play to cause food shortages and increased prices. But are we witnessing total happenstance and coincidence or is it intentional? Are they trying to take down our food supply? Are they trying to sabotage our supply chain? And by ‘they,’ who do we mean? The enemy from within or an enemy of a foreign variety?”

There are no concrete answers to these questions, unfortunately, but we’re witnessing what appears to be the perfect storm for sky-high food prices and food scarcity. The global food price index hit its highest recorded level in March 2022, rising 12.6% in a single month.32 On average, food prices were one-third higher than in March 2021. In the U.S., food prices rose 9% in 2021, and are predicted to rise another 4.5% to 5% in the next 12 months.33

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is certainly not helping. As mentioned, Ukraine is known as “the bread basket” of Europe, responsible for producing and exporting 12% of all food calories traded on the international market. Russia is also a major exporter of food and, together with Ukraine, the two countries account for nearly 30% of global wheat exports, nearly 20% of the world’s corn and more than 80% of the sunflower oil.34

Still, the Ukraine conflict is not entirely to blame. Price inflation was already ramping up well before Russia went into Ukraine, thanks to the uncontrolled printing of fiat currencies that occurred in response to the COVID pandemic. Governments’ COVID response have also wreaked havoc with global supply chains, causing disruptions that continue to this day.

The climate has also been uncooperative, causing poor harvests around the world. China, for example, has reported it expects the lowest harvest yields in history this year, thanks to serious flooding of its farmland in the fall of 2021.35

Are We Entering Phase 2 of The Great Reset Plan?

By now, you may have heard about the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Great Reset and their plan for you to “own nothing and be happy” as part of WEF’s 2030 agenda.36 In the first quarter of 2021, 15% of U.S. homes sold were purchased by corporate investors37 — not families looking to achieve their American dream.

While they’re competing with middle-class Americans for the homes, the average American has virtually no chance of winning a home over an investment firm, which may pay 20% to 50% over asking price,38 in cash, sometimes scooping up entire neighborhoods at once so they can turn them into rentals.39 It appears we’re quickly entering an era where home ownership is becoming out of reach for many — necessitating renting instead of owning, a first step to “owning nothing.”

World war, however, is Phase 2 of The Great Reset plan, which includes the destruction of supply chains, the energy sector, food supply and workforce, to create dependency on government, which in turn will be taken over by private interests and central banks through the collapse of the global economy. An anonymous correspondent recently wrote about this on WinterOak.org:40

“Welcome to the second phase of the Great Reset: war. While the pandemic acclimatized the world to lockdowns, normalized the acceptance of experimental medications, precipitated the greatest transfer of wealth to corporations by decimating SMEs [small and medium-sized businesses] and adjusted the muscle memory of workforce operations in preparation for a cybernetic future, an additional vector was required to accelerate the economic collapse before nations can ‘Build Back Better.’”

The article presents “several ways in which the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is the next catalyst for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda, facilitated by an interconnected web of global stakeholders and a diffuse network of public-private partnerships.”

Disruption to supply chains fit right into this plan, while food shortages, driven by the many factors discussed and, perhaps, orchestrated attacks on food plants, will accelerate the acceptance of synthetic foods, such as lab-grown meat, which has also been championed by Great Reset front men like Bill Gates.

Of course, it’s possible that Gates buying up farmland, The Great Reset’s push to build a nation of renters, world leaders warning of food shortages, a war and, now, an unexplained jump and apparent acceleration in fires at food plants could all be just coincidence — or could it? What do you think?

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Anonymous
Anonymous

If you buy or farm organic fruits and veggies you are killing poor people.

ran t 7
ran t 7

yet their numbers keep increasing ….

Ghost
Ghost

A couple months ago, I asked my VA doctor if I could try a medication called Gabapentin for my headache issues related to pressure on a couple of nerves caused by my CSF draining shunt. She said NO… that it was not indicated and suggested muscle relaxers which make me dopey(er).

My regular doctor, the US Navy retired ship doctor, prescribed them for me and explained the reason why the VA won’t… Gabapentin can be cooked up into a heroin-like substance.

Four years ago, when Nick had his shoulder surgery, the VA sent him a bottle of 300 Gabapentin capsules, of which the majority of are the freezer. Now, they won’t prescribe 30 to me because someone might turn it into heroin.

Do people just sit around with all sorts of medication cooking it down to see what it turns into? What the actual fuck?

bucknp
bucknp

Man has an innovative mind and could very well could sit around cooking various concoctions.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

My college roommate was on ritalin in the ’70s when we roomed … back then it was in capsule form — he used to take apart the capsule and crush the amphetamine component … and off he’d go … like a Mazda — zoom, zoom!

Ken31
Ken31

It just helped me be able to sit quietly and study for longer periods, as an older adult. It also made beginning activities and holding conversations much easier.

ran t 7
ran t 7

“Do people just sit around with all sorts of medication cooking it down to see what it turns into?”

like hackers, many intelligent people with chemistry degrees study and experiment on available medications to see what recreational uses they can come up with, yes.

Ken31
Ken31

My VA doctor gave me Gabapentin for sleep and I kept titrating it up until it unexpectedly eliminated my anxiety and ADD like symptoms. But this was a very high dose the VA wouldn’t let me stay on, so I bought some of my own and kept taking it until it stopped working, and then I quit all my head meds and am feeling and performing much better in all areas.

I did have a huge fight with the VA over it, though. I also had to fight with them over methylphenidate, because rather than help people, the VA treats people like drug addicts and criminals.

Some of my early doctors didn’t think my head injuries would need to be medicated forever, and I think they were right. I don’t think I would have recovered so much without them, but I am glad to not be on meds.

bucknp
bucknp

Why anyone starts doing meth baffles me. Long ago I read meth is more addictive than heroin. The article said just doing meth one time a person is likely to have become addicted. Pray for those whose lives are controlled by drug use.

I do have family by marriage that has struggled with various addictions. Some have overcome and others have not sitting in jail . No one dead yet.

mark
mark

I have a formerly cute, vivacious, younger sister in law who dabbled with meth 20 years ago, it destroyed her marriage (she brought it into the house and the husband – a rock solid guy – got hooked too). Lots of drama, fights, he lost his 100k a year job, they lost their house, divorced, the husband got clean, new career, new wife…she still dabbled…ended up writing bad checks did some jail time, lost her license…has been living in poverty on the government teat since.

Now she looks like my wife’s haggard older sister.

We live in different regions of the country, I tried to help her once, connected her with a Pastor I found by her who specialized in helping druggies…as she was just playing her sister (my wife) for more $$$. She dodged a drug test I had set up through the Pastor before any more $$$ was sent, and avoided the Pastor. She didn’t want help she wanted $$$.

Her youngest daughter just had her second baby by some trailer park ass hat who is long gone like the first one who knocked her up right out of high school. Three generations of poverty living together now.

It has been a family nightmare and I see no end in sight…glad we are so far away.

bucknp
bucknp

Sad deal.

I use to read about meth users and look at their pictures. 28-30 year olds that looked very wrinkled as some in their 80’s do.

daddy Joe
daddy Joe

It is said that 99% of meth users find one of two exit doors–either death or the criminal justice system. About 1% live on with their tics, neuralgias, delusions, fried brains, and no teeth. Hollowed out, eternally unsatisfied, prematurely aged–literally the walking dead.

B_MC
B_MC

Baby formula. 42.6% corn syrup. 10.1% sugar. With “food”like this, maybe it’s for the better….

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B_MC
B_MC

The composition of human milk is the biologic norm for infant nutrition. Human milk also contains many hundreds to thousands of distinct bioactive molecules that protect against infection and inflammation and contribute to immune maturation, organ development, and healthy microbial colonization…

Human milk is uniquely suited to the human infant, both in its nutritional composition and in the non-nutritive bioactive factors that promote survival and healthy development.3 Here, we briefly review the nutritional composition of human milk and provide an overview of its varied bioactive factors, which include cells, anti-infectious and anti-inflammatory agents, growth factors, and prebiotics. Unlike infant formula, which is standardized within a very narrow range of composition, human milk composition is dynamic, and varies within a feeding, diurnally, over lactation, and between mothers and populations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586783/

mark
mark

Wow I never knew that..,that is sickening.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

The soy might not be doing so much good, either —

brian
brian

First five ingredients are sugars and oils… must be super healthy… especially for the male babies taking in all that soy ‘proteins and oil’ which are high in estrogen, shouldn’t be any issues there right?!?!? /s

Ken31
Ken31

Regulatory agencies always lead to this shit, because they are too important not to capture. Regulation enables evil. All that are needed are responsibility laws and severe punishments, not regulatory bodies.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

Well … if mom’s had the jab(s) — the spike protein’s in it … so baby might just not do very well …

Jay
Jay

How long have those been the ingredients? Would explain a lot of the fucked up kids walking around today…at least a part of it anyways.

daddy Joe
daddy Joe

What did we expect? The base of the American food chain has five foundation stones–High fructose corn syrup, soy bean oil, soy, chicken nuggets, and potatoes mixed and matched in various ways, usually fried and served with equally unhealthy sauces. Gotta start those poor younguns out early and get em used to it.

BL
BL

Back in the day, people made baby formula at home out of condensed milk and karo syrup. Basically canned milk and corn syrup.

bucknp
bucknp

My wife reminded me that concoction was the way it was done before the commercial formulas. And some folks gave babies goats milk.

bucknp
bucknp

No kidding. Didn’t babies use to just get milk as in cow? Maybe not. I know I drank gallons of it as I grew to know my name.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Surprise , it’s not just a conspiracy ! It’s a plan that has been morphing and adjusting for decades .
Sure no one saw that printing money to the moon devaluing the dollar to less than toilet paper value and selling off American industrial capabilities and the earning power and tax base that made Americans independent individuals supporting all manor of public projects and services now covered by debt and that debt piled on minimum wage earners with college degrees mortgaged to the sky wondering if you want to super size your happy meal .
While government employees retire with life left to live and the means to do so on the back of a mother of two children working 2 minimum wage jobs 35 hours each no benefits . She hikes to and from putting 70 hours a week and 2/3 of her earnings just cover rent !
The elites in this nation have over played this poker hand and the rubble they left behind is about to topple their house of cards !
Good thing many of them have a survival bunker complex !
They’re going to need it !

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

Coincidences in food plant fires/explosions/airplane crashes?

Just like the oil refinery fires/explosions every Spring except this year … 

Seems like the pattern where the FauciFlu replaced the seasonal flu is being run on US now regarding food plants vs. oil refineries in prior decades …

Strangely, though, I’ve noticed at both Costco and Walmart that some food items (and many others) are in short supply every so often — BUT alcohol is available in massive quantities — everything from beer to wine to whiskey (including whisky) …

Priorities … 

bucknp
bucknp

BUT alcohol is available in massive quantities — everything from beer to wine to whiskey (including whisky)

That’s really something! I like a few craft beers. My wife does not drink beer or any alcohol beverage. She comments after grocery shopping sometimes with current hit or miss availability of products, there certainly is no shortage of beer!

Long time since reading

    Brave New World

Soma anyone?

para59r
para59r

Just a thought but I’d think you might consider what roll the Great Replacements have in this.

Anonymous
Anonymous

There are NO coincidences.

Jdog
Jdog

The fact that a food crisis is being engineered cannot be denied. Most probably with the intention of creating famine in Africa and parts of South America and Asia to rationalize the mass infiltration of immigrants across the borders of Europe and North America. Unless America can rid itself of the Globalists in government, our country is lost.

Call me Jack

Members of both my church and extended family who voted Biden/Harris have been seen loading carts with pinto beans,rice,canned mets,etc. The rats are leaving the ship.Better prepare.

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