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.
details and patterns matter — nothing should be dismissed.
I was gonna say, what percentage of food production do they represent?
This.
The list lacks details, not all of these incidents even effected plant operations.
To determine if there is a pattern, you would need to compare with previous years.
Some of the incidents are clearly accidents.
A whole lot of nothing.
It would be useful to have statistics on the food production loss over several administrations, and also the problems during the past 2 Covid years. The amount of production loss due to this cause compared with total prodution would also be useful. I suspect that the issue of new, inexperienced workers and loss of experienced ones is certainly a factor.
Regarding the price of diesel, that seems to have been caused by loss of train transport. One major railroad reduced transport of goods by 50%. Others have also reduced transport. Thus a lot more trucks are being used to carry goods to market, and they frequently use diesel.
On the subject of conspiracy theories, I am a third of the way through reading Tom Clancy’s “The Teeth of the Tiger.” The plot has 16 Jijadi terrorists slipping into the US to perform mischief. I have not yet read what kind of disasters Clancy proposed for this 2003 book. We should certainly be alert and ready to report suspicious behavior, especially for our food and water supply. I have also for a number of years tried to maintain a 3 month supply of easy to store and prepare foodstuffs, and multiple gallons of drinking water. I started this habit 25 years ago when mostly stuck at home caring for dying mother and husband. These days “thanks” to Covid we have better grocery delivery services.
There are until there are not. The trend is not our friend.
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