There are over 30,000 processing plants in the US.
How many do you think have to catch fire since 2017 to qualify as a significant percentage?
500?
5,000?
...analysis of the NFPA’s own data and information from the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) found an annual average of 5,308 fires at all types of manufacturing and processing facilities between 2015 and 2019. The organization separately tallied an annual average of 961 fires at agriculture facilities, 1,115 incidents at grain or livestock storage sites, and 35 blazes at refrigerated storage locations over the same period.
This falls under the category of baader meinhof phenomenon.
Something nobody was really paying attention to is now being looked at under a microscope and people are surprised how often it happens.
And just in case you think this food plant burning craze is a conspiracy too far, here's a good old reuter's deboonking to help you sleep better:
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-processing-fire/fact-check-food-processing-plant-fires-in-2022-are-not-part-of-a-conspiracy-to-trigger-u-s-food-shortages-idUSL2N2WW2CY
Of course, for some of us, this is just evidence to support the conspiracy.
This has been rebunked.
There are over 30,000 processing plants in the US.
How many do you think have to catch fire since 2017 to qualify as a significant percentage?
500?
5,000?
This falls under the category of baader meinhof phenomenon.
Something nobody was really paying attention to is now being looked at under a microscope and people are surprised how often it happens.