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Food Processing Plants Have Been Catching on Fire — Here's Why
Market Realist ^ | April 21st, 2022 | Robin Hill-Gray

Posted on 04/22/2022 6:12:20 AM PDT by shadowlands1960

There's a weird trend going around, and it isn't a new TikTok dance, but rather food processing plants catching on fire. Since the beginning of this year, there have been a high number of food distributing and processing facilities catching on fire and creating massive damage. Why are so many food processing plants catching on fire?

Social media and Twitter, in particular, are drawing attention to a trend occurring in numerous food processing plants — they are catching on fire. While some of them have been able to bounce back, others are stuck trying to rebuild and resume distributing goods, and even laying off employees.

Several food processing plants have recently caught fire.

Recently, a plane crashed into a potato and food processing plant in Idaho. According to the Idaho Statesman, the plane hit the Gem State Processing plant located in Heyburn of East Idaho around 8:35 a.m. Gem Processing oversees 18,000 acres of Idaho potatoes. The pilot was the only fatality and no plant employees were injured. The plane was coming from the Salt Lake City International airport when it crashed into the building and reportedly flipped on the roof.

Azure Standard is an independently owned company that specializes in natural and non-GMO foods. On April 19, the company released a statement that its headquarters were destroyed by an overnight fire. According to the release posted on Twitter, the cause of the fire is unknown and there weren't any injuries or fatalities. The release said, "While the HQ facility is a total loss, and a few product lines will be affected for the short term, other Azure Standard facilities are operating as close to normal as possible."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: beans; lentils; rice
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To: Chickensoup

No explanation offered, just the obvious theory the fires are being set to create artificial shortages.


21 posted on 04/22/2022 6:37:23 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: BipolarBob

It must be from Spontaneous Combustion as a result of man made Global Warming


22 posted on 04/22/2022 6:37:43 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: skeeter

Tucker pretty much covered the story in the same way... except he didn’t put a ‘here’s why’ in his comments... He said that in all cases the authorities had natural explanations for the occurrences...


23 posted on 04/22/2022 6:40:13 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: deport
Some of these fires in your collage aren't exactly of staples (Hot Pockets, potato chips). Some others sound relatively minor ($100,000 damage isn't that much any more).There are 38,000 food and beverage processing plants, so 200 is about .5%, which is significant, but not enough to shut down the food chain.

While food and beverage processing plants are located throughout the United States, they are more numerous in some States than others. Five States—California, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Illinois—accounted for 38 percent of the 34,661 U.S. food and beverage processing plants operating in 2015.

Source: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2017/november/number-of-food-and-beverage-processing-plants-varies-across-the-united-states/

Unverified comment:
In the U.S. there were approximately 1,240 warehouse fires per year between 2009 and 2013, with annual property damages of around $155 million. This represents a reduction in the number of fires over a 30-year observation period, from 4,700 to around 1,200 per year.
24 posted on 04/22/2022 6:49:13 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: skeeter

https://patriots.win/p/15HbknZReW/tucker-food-shortages-from-multi/c/

Tuckers take


25 posted on 04/22/2022 6:49:47 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: shadowlands1960

I’m sure the FIB’s are on it. After they keep citizens in DC in jail for years. And hunt down the two white supremacist’s in the country.


26 posted on 04/22/2022 6:51:36 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: shadowlands1960

Apparently, planes crash into all of them?


27 posted on 04/22/2022 6:53:50 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: shadowlands1960

Russian sleeper agents?


28 posted on 04/22/2022 6:55:07 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: kvanbrunt2

If I were to guess what the FBI would say, it would be something along the lines of ‘conspiracy theorists are trying to take a normal occurrence and blow it into a ‘deep state plot.’


29 posted on 04/22/2022 6:55:33 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: Chickensoup

A few weeks ago a large potato processing plant in Belfast Maine burned, pretty much destroying the whole facility. The cause was a malfunctioning Fryolator.


30 posted on 04/22/2022 6:56:06 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: shadowlands1960
Just for the heck of it. A WalMart Distribution Center burned to the ground.

Firefighters turned off part of sprinkler system at Plainfield Walmart fulfillment center

Lots of good info on the page about the fire in general.

31 posted on 04/22/2022 6:57:24 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: ConservativeMind

So the pilot that died was out to tangle up the food supply? Plane controls hijacked by the PLA?
I can see how we can tangle ourselves into a knot over this. I still find it all suspicious but ever since Covid and J6 I’ve been looking for the next ‘shoe to drop’ and that I believe is going to be food shortages.. many agree with me which is why this story has wings...


32 posted on 04/22/2022 6:59:22 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: NewHampshireDuo

“The cause was a malfunctioning Fryolator.”

Well, it must be a conspiracy then.

(SARC)


33 posted on 04/22/2022 7:01:21 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: NewHampshireDuo

I hear it is all malfunctioning equipment.

But let’s get real. These 20 are not coincidence.

Of course the equipment caused the fires. Who messed with the equipment? That is the sabotage.

Leftists are famous as sabatours


34 posted on 04/22/2022 7:02:50 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: shadowlands1960

The Food Processing Plant Conspiracy


35 posted on 04/22/2022 7:13:28 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: econjack

THe plant in Georgia wasn’t hit. The plane crashed into a parking lot and no one at the plant was injured. That’s in our local news.


36 posted on 04/22/2022 7:23:50 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Freedom first.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Disgruntled employee yelled at his pain in the a$$ boss, “I’LL FRY U LATER, NOT WORKING!”. I guess reporter didn’t quite understand.


37 posted on 04/22/2022 7:27:05 AM PDT by hflynn ( )
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To: grey_whiskers

Yes it probably is something like that.


38 posted on 04/22/2022 7:28:39 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: Chickensoup

Equipment doesn’t necessarily have to be messed with in order for a catastrophic failure to occur.

I’ll preface this by saying I’ve been in the industrial maintenance field for over 20 years as both a technician/tradesman as well as in supervisory/leadership roles.

Maintenance is a 4 letter word to many of these operations. They would rather run something until it breaks than schedule downtime to perform any sort of maintenance on equipment.

I can’t count the times I’ve begged operations managers and plant leaders to bring equipment out of service as to avoid equipment failure, but no one wants to be responsible for interrupting production in order to perform repairs.

Luckily, most failures only affect the equipment involved. Unfortunately some failures start fires/explosions or cause process interruptions that lead to some very unwanted results.

Oil and chemical plants aren’t as bad due to the industry watchdogs, both governmental and privately run, that they are accountable to and audited by.

Smaller food and intermediary facilities are much worse because reliability and safety usually take a back seat to production.

Granted, this is just my anecdotal experience, but I’ve spoken to many others in plants across the country who see the same things.


39 posted on 04/22/2022 7:32:42 AM PDT by Christopher
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To: shadowlands1960

Coincidence? Perhaps. Merits a deeper look than we can give credit to the ‘media’, and I do not claim to do such a thing here (I still work for a living).

https://rumble.com/v11xgho-tucker-reports-on-epidemic-of-burned-down-food-processing-facilities.html

https://m.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/i-am-growing-deeply-concerned-about-our-food-and-fuel-supply/204749791873784/

https://callmestormy.net/2022/04/22/suspicious-food-processor-fires/

Bongino had a segment on it, too, but since I didn’t watch it, I haven’t been able to source it.


40 posted on 04/22/2022 7:38:01 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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