Posted on 06/01/2022 10:20:13 AM PDT by george76
As more food processing plants burn down, the prophecy of pre-Messianic food shortages looms more imminent. Though labeled a conspiracy theory, the facts remain undeniable; prices are rising as supply chain problems persist and food becomes dear.
BIDEN: PLANNING TO “DISSEMINATE FOOD SHORTAGES.”.
The story comes in the wake of a presidential prediction that food shortages were about to become a reality due to the war in Ukraine. While addressing the subject, President Biden made a gaffe that made it seem that the food shortages were, in fact, planned.
“We had a long discussion in the G7 with the, with both the United States, which has a significant — the third-largest producer of wheat in the world — as well as Canada, which is also a major, major producer, and we both talked about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food, food shortages,” Biden said at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on March 24. The video has been removed by Facebook. The transcript of that address has also been altered slightly.
“With regard to food shortages, yes, we did talk about food shortages. And it’s going to be real,” Biden said at a press conference last week in Belgium after attending meetings of NATO and G7 leaders.
The president referred to 8% inflation as “the price of sanctions.”
“Both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example, just to give one example,” Biden said.
WAVE OF FIRES..
While Biden blamed Russia, fires cropped up all around the US in food production facilities. Despite Biden’s deflection, many of the fires occurred before the conflict in Ukraine:
On Saturday evening, a fire broke out at Perdue Farms facility in the South Norfolk area of Chesapeake, North Carolina.
Ten days ago, a small plane crashed within a mile of the runway of the Covington, Georgia Municipal Airport, hitting a General Mills food facility.
On Sunday, it was being reported that “nearly a dozen wildfires” had just roared through key agricultural areas of Nebraska.
In the middle of the night, on March 23, a fire broke out on the roof of the General Mills food processing plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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On March 28, Maricopa Food Pantry, a local food bank in Arizona, lost 50,000 pounds worth of food in a fire that occurred “just 15 minutes after their food bank closed,” according to CBS affiliate Arizona’s Family.AZCentral cited CEO Jim Shoaf in stating that 15,000 pounds of meat and 40,000 pounds of canned goods and “other commodities” were lost in the blaze.
On March 31, a structure fire significantly damaged a large portion of the Rio Fresh onion packing facility in San Juan, Texas. It was the largest fresh onion packing facility in the region.
On April 12, a major fire broke out at New Hampshire’s East Conway Beef and Pork slaughterhouse.
On April 13, the Taylor Farms California Foodservice production facility in Salinas, California, burned almost entirely to the ground. The facility employed nearly 1,000 people. An update on the company’s website described the Salinas facility as its primary production facility.
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On April 14, a small plane crashed into the Gem State food processing plant in Heyburn, Idaho. The website for the company describes itself as processing 18,000 acres worth of potatoes each year.
On April 19, the headquarters of Azure Standard, the nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire. The company released a statement that due to the destruction, the company “will experience out-of-stock status for Azure Market oils, honey, and vinegar – basically any Azure Market liquid product – as well as our carob products for the short term.” The destruction may also affect product supplies from their fruit packing facility.
On March 24, 2022, a fire destroyed the Penobscot McCrum potato processing plant in Belfast, Maine.
On March 16, 2022, according to KAIT, a fire caused extensive damage to a new production line dedicated to Hot Pockets at a Nestle plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
On March 16, a major fire hit the 1.2 million-sq.-ft. Walmart fulfillment center, Plainfield, Indiana.
On February 22, 2022, a propane boiler explosion caused a fire that destroyed the Shearer’s Foods potato chip plant in northeast Oregon.
On February 3, 2022, according to NBC15 in Madison, WI., a fire destroyed part of the Wisconsin River Meats site in Mauston.
On January 13, 2022, according to KALB, an explosion and fire damaged the Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, Louisiana.
On January 6, 2022, a fire did extensive damage to a poultry processing plant in Hamilton, Ontario, according to CHCH-TV.
On December 13, 2021, a fire broke out at a food processing plant in San Antonio, Texas. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they found a freezer on fire in the facility. $150,000 worth of food was destroyed in the fire.
On November 29, 2021, a fire broke out at the Maid-Rite Steak Company meat processing plant in Scott Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The cause of this fire has been ruled an accident.
On September 12, 2021, a fire broke out at the JVS USA beef processing plant in Grand Island, Nebraska. According to Drovers, the nation’s oldest livestock publication, the fire was determined to be from a heater near the roof in the rendering area of the plant.
On August 23, 2021, a fire broke out at Patak Meat Products in Cobb County, Georgia. In March of 2022, the company said on Facebook that it is still rebuilding.
On July 31, 2021, according to WVTM, the NBC station in Birmingham, Alabama, a fire broke out at Tyson’s River Valley Ingredients rendering plant in Hanceville, Alabama.
On July 25, 2021, a fire damaged a Kellogg’s plant in Memphis, Tennessee. According to fire officials, it was accidentally sparked when a malfunctioning conveyer belt sparked a blaze in a rice drying machine.
On April 30, 2021, a fire broke out at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Monmouth, Illinois.
On January 11, 2021, a fire destroyed the Deli Star meat processing plant in Fayetteville, Illinois, according to Meat+Poultry.
There are at least 36,000 food processing plants of various types around the USA. I am pretty sure there are a few of them closed down for something at any one point in time and this number of plants is not even a significant percentage of the total.
There are far worse things to be worried about right now, such as the cost of diesel to get the food to market.
Add this one to the list
https://www.fox9.com/news/massive-fire-breaks-out-at-commercial-egg-farm-near-cokato-minn
Pretty much all of them since Brandon took office.
These fires are just a coincidence. Food processing plants always have this many fires. I can still easily get a Big Mac at Mickey D’s anytime I want (if my wife will let me). /sarc
details and patterns matter — nothing should be dismissed.
Good news for the Democrat Party. It can’t get anarcho-tyranny without a little anarchy.
When the coincidences form into a pattern, well, it’s not necessarily paranoia if there IS a conspiracy behind it.
Add to the fires and “equipment failures” the potential for many of these processing centers to be hit with nasty contaminations, requiring the FDA to shut the plant down, and failing to get things restarted even when the original problem is fully remedied.
Let the bastards starve and/or freeze to death in the dark.
Paging Alex Jones! Paging Alex Jones!
Bongino brought up that many of these accidents are likely caused by new inexperienced workers
When the plants shut down for covid many workers never returned.
Doesn’t explain all of them.
It may get interesting for those living in the city that can’t forage, hunt or grow their own food if things collapse.
Ten days ago, a small plane crashed within a mile of the runway of the Covington, Georgia Municipal Airport, hitting a General Mills food facility.
No one can say, definitively, if there was/wasn’t something nefarious. However....
The plant is rather large.
The plane went nose first into some empty trailers, some distance away from the facility.
Student pilot and instructor.
If they wanted to hit the facility, they could have.
Just sayin’.....as for the other stuff I don’t know.
The more things change.... d;^)
You and many others can say what you want about the guy, but recent history has shown he wasn’t wrong about quite a few things.
Why do we have to see this from a foreign source???
US based news journalism is worthless
3 of the 4 horsemen of apocalypse are, Pestilence check, famine check, and war check, not saying we are approaching the rapture, but it is interesting.
History says “Not authentic Communism/Socialism without mandatory famines.”
The mysterious fires are probably resulting from undermanned and poorly trained workers. Lots of shutdowns and minimal staffing and people leaving due to the Covid jihad.
Now they are probably short handed, and lots of new people.
Lots of machinery, processes, chemicals, storage requirements and processes that cannot be done wrong.
Just a guess.
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