What’s With All the Food Processing Plants Blowing Up Lately?

A weird trend has emerged over the past few months that seems statistically unlikely. A number of factories, logistical centers, and food processing plants have caught fire or exploded, including two that had planes crash on them. More and more people have noticed and wondered about the trend on social media. Of course, this has caused the conspiracy theorists to come out in force, so one must make a sober assessment without jumping to conclusions. But man, this is weird. With all the negative pressures on our economy and supply chains, and even Joe Biden talking about global food shortages over the next several months, one has to wonder what’s going on here.

One large logistics center going up in flames is enough to sit up and take notice. That happened at a Walmart distribution center in Indianapolis on March 21, requiring over 350 firefighters to extinguish:

Around 1,000 employees were inside a Walmart Fulfillment Center in Plainfield, near Indianapolis, Wednesday afternoon when a fire broke out.

Crews battled the blaze as the fire sent large plumes of smoke into the air, visible from miles away.

By Friday, Plainfield Fire Territory Fire Chief Brent Anderson said the fire was out, although crews moving debris are still suppressing hot spots.

“We are working our 50th hour since this event started at about noon on Wednesday,” Anderson said.

A second Walmart Fulfillment Center is located next to one that caught fire. The second building closed Wednesday and remained closed Thursday due to its proximity to the burning building.

The facility that caught fire is about 1.2 million square feet, about the size of 20 football fields. Fire crews had the fire contained to the first Walmart fulfillment Center building, officials said.

A fire of that size is big enough to cause temporary, localized disruptions in an already stressed supply chain. Reviewing media reports going back six months, a larger trend emerges.

 

 

An explosion caused significant damage at Shearer’s Foods in Hermiston, Ore. in February, leaving seven workers injured. In April, a Salinas, Calif. food processing plant suffered a large fire that threatened to cause an ammonia explosion, leading to local evacuations.

A large fire two weeks ago at the Port of Benicia in California took over 24 hours to extinguish, leading to fears of further gas price hikes:

It took firefighters just over 24 hours to put out a four-alarm fire at the port of Benicia that broke out Saturday afternoon. While investigators look for the cause of the fire, the port and the companies that use it are assessing how big an economic impact the fire will have in the Bay Area.

The Valero refinery uses the Benicia port to offload crude oil from freighters. The fire damaged a conveyor belt that transports a byproduct of the refining process called petroleum coke which must be eliminated. Energy experts say that, if Valero can’t get rid of the petroleum coke, it will disrupt their ability to produce gasoline.

“Any kind of a supply constraint like this will tend to push (gas) prices up,” said Dave Hackett, chairman of Stillwater Associates, a transportation and energy consulting company based in Irvine.

This after a gas pipeline in Michigan exploded in March.

On April 19, a fire destroyed the Azure Standard Headquarters in Dufur, Ore.

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8 Comments

  1. Parachutin Frogman April 24, 2022 at 14:02

    Deep State wants us DEAD and quickly. The infamous “Deagle Report” released in 2017 called for a total living population of 99,600,000 American’s by the year 2025. No joking either.

  2. Chris April 24, 2022 at 14:13

    I dont know about any “deep state”….Theories.
    They have famlies that shop, eat, etc.

    But….

    I Do Know, “The Left”…is WAY TF ahead….
    On DA and Everything Computer and Internet.

    They are very good at ….Blending in to get where they need to be and cause Media Sensations, Social Media “Outrages”…etc etc.

    Thats my .2cent
    im uneducated opinion at least.

  3. Rob157 April 24, 2022 at 14:13

    “The principal method employed at this stage is ‘grey terror’, that is, a kind of terror which is not conducted in the name of the Soviet Union.” – Victor Suvorov

    “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.” – Nikita Khrushchev

    “You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Whether this Russian / Chinese directed, or done by the traitors within is irrelevant. Most people are not paying attention to these issues, the borders being over-run, a few companies buying up the country, and / or controlling 99% of the media, death by a thousand cuts, etc, etc, etc. America has been set up, and is being taken down. Most people will refuse to see it to the bitter end.

    Maybe if we just Voat Moar Harder…

  4. Rooster April 24, 2022 at 14:13

    All of these structures have fire suppression and monitoring systems…all of them by National Fire Code. What happened to those systems and why are we not hearing about those investigations? Lots of questions but all of this is not happenstance as these systems are AUTOMATIC. If they dont work there is foul play involved. Bad moon a risin!
    R

  5. Parachutin Frogman April 24, 2022 at 14:41

    Great point, Rooster! Very interesting.

  6. Juri April 24, 2022 at 15:23

    Liberal fighting style at its best. On the other side of the planet, something similar happens.

    Russia’s Largest Chemical Plant Engulfed In Flames Hours After Mystery Fire At Military Research Facility
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/large-deadly-fire-breaks-out-russian-defense-research-facility

    WW III will be 4th Gen war between humans and communists.

  7. Not So Free April 24, 2022 at 21:06

    Don’t forget the partial shutdown of trainloads of grain and fertilizer.
    If cattle can’t eat and farmers can’t plant, there won’t be enough food.
    Sounds like a plan to me.

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