Sammy Jankis
Was it me?
Food processing plants and distribution centers are now burning to crisp in rapid succession, a peculiar trend that has been growing since 2021.
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article was first published on April 24th. New information has been added. Scroll throughout the report for more information.
The WinePress has covered some of these mysterious acts since last year and going into this year. Now they are, dare I say, spreading like a wildfire across America. The prevalence of such fires have grown so much that at the time of this publication, the topic was a trending search question on Google.
NOTE: The WinePress has explained in other reports that these fires and mass culling of livestock is not by accident, and aligns with previously established initiatives to purportedly curtail harmful emissions. According to the Absolute Zero agenda goals for 2030 and 2050, some of these actions as detailed in this article, help fulfil these initiatives – to which the masses do not realize nor does the media on either side dare to acknowledge. Some of these goals include:
[By 2030] National consumption of beef and lamb drops by 50%, along with reduction in frozen ready meals and air-freighted food imports. [Afterwards] Beef and lamb [are] phased out, along with all imports not transported by train; fertilizer use greatly reduced.
There are currently no freight ships operating without emissions, so shipping must contract [by 2030]. [By 2050] All shipping declines to zero.
This list goes on, but these goals established by Western think-tanks years ago are being directly or indirectly fulfilled by these fires, shipment delays, derailments, and cullings. You can be the judge. Another such example of this can be seen in this latest WinePress report: “International Ports Going “Net Zero” And “Smart” Could Explain Some Of Supply Chain Shortages And Famine.”
In the last weeks the U.S. has seen Taylor Farms, a packaged salad plant in Salinas, California, burn to a crisp; and the Azure Standard headquarters, “the nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food,” also was burned to smithereens.
Azure HQ Fire
Courtesy: Azure Standard
But these are just the two most recent ones, of a significantly larger string of fires burning down food factories, stores, and distribution centers.
Reallygraceful, The Economic Ninja, and the Western Standard, recently compiled a list of just some of these fires that are ripping through the nation since 2021. These include:
Maid-Rite Steak Company (Pennsylvania)
Food Processing plant in San Antonio, Texas
Cargill-Nutrena (Los Angeles, CA)
Van Drunen (Illinois)
Potato plant in Maine
Potato plant in Washington state
Harpers’ Market (Ontario, Canada)
Mauston Meat Processing Plant (Wisconsin)
Bonzana Meat Company (El Paso, Texas)
Sheorers Foods (Oregon)
Nestlte Hot Pockets plant (Arkansas)
Walmart distribution center (Indiana)
Walmart storefront (Edgewood, New Mexico)
Walmart storefront (Clark County/Las Vegas, Nevada)
Rio Fresh Onion facility (Southern Texas)
East Conway Beef & Pork (New Hampshire)
Deli Star (Illinois)
Tyson poultry plant (Kentucky)
Rice dryer at Kellogg’s plant (Indiana)
Tyson feed ingredients (Alabama)
Meat provider in Georgia
JBS meat plant (Nebraska)
Smithfield Foods plant (North Carolina)
Fertilizer plant in North Carolina
Wisconsin River Meats
Louis Dreyfus – largest soy processing plant in U.S. (Indiana)
Potato plant processor in Oregon
Fertilizer plant in Kansas
Plane crash near General Mills cereal plant (Georgia)
Plane crash into Gem State [Potato] Processing facility (Idaho)
East Conway Beef & Pork butcher shop and meat market (Maine)
Industrial food preparation and processing facility (Quebec, Canada)
Maricopa Food Pantry (Arizona)
Patak Meat Production company (Georgia)
River Valley Ingredients plant (Alabama)
And that list comprises only the ones these three outlets were able to find and present. The likelihood that there may have been more is great.
UPDATE 4/28: It is not just the U.S. and Canada facing these peculiar fires, but the BBC reported yesterday a “ferocious” fire broke out at the Riverway Foods, a sausage factory in Harlow, Essex, England. Dorottya Spányik, wife of the owner of the plant, said “the latest is my husband told me one of the buildings is now gone.”
Fire on River Way in Harlow
Riverway Foods fire. Courtesy: Dorottya Spányik
UPDATE 5/2: The fires and supply-chain disruptions are continuing around the country since the last WinePress update.
Reported a day after the WinePress’ initial post, it was reported that a General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, suffered from fire damage. That plant processed fruit snacks, cereals, and frosting.
On April 30th, a Perdue Farms plant that processes grains and stores goods, suffered an industrial fire, in Chesapeake, Virginia.
And just yesterday in Burlington, North Dakota, at least eleven train cars derailed and caught fire. Paper products and frozen foods were destroyed.
As a “bonus,” The WP reported that millions of bees were scorched on a tarmac, which will only slow down honey production: “Millions Of Imported Bees Died After Being Scorched On A Tarmac.”
UPDATE 5/9: The fires keep on rolling in. First reported on May 2nd, a spark ignited a fire at food processing plant in Northwest Fresno, California. Just a few hours later firefighters responded to an ammonia leak at the same building, though it is unclear if the leak was related to the fire.
I believe there is a squeeze coming this year that is going to be intense. And is going to put people in a position where they are hungry, they’re scared, and they’re angry. We’re going to have rising inflation and food shortages. The food shortages are going to exacerbate the inflation.
The Economic Ninja explained
These fires are getting so out of control that it is leaving many wondering if these acts are deliberate, partly due to the spurious and repetitive occurrence of these fires: especially considering, as Reallygraceful points out, compared to 2019, these fires have skyrocketed in frequency.
The Media Fires Back *Update 5/9*
In response to critics, Food Processing – “the magazine of the food industry” – published an opinion piece on April 22nd, stating:
For as long as I can remember, conspiracy theories have swirled around food and the companies that process it.
This company is in secret league with the devil. That one uses cat meat and calls it chicken. The other uses slave labor. Maybe it’s a natural consequence of food being produced far away, out of sight; you can’t help getting a little paranoid about just what’s in it and how it’s made.
I thought I’d heard it all, but this is a new one: Apparently a bunch of firebugs want to keep food prices high by setting fire to food plants.
[…] maybe the whole thing is yet another manifestation of how paranoid conspiracy theories are taking over the discourse about politics, business and pretty much everything else in American life.
And as noted in the magazine’s report, Tucker Carlson of Fox News had also briefly touched on this issue, insinuating that there might be deliberate attacks against these facilities to weaken the food systems.
Moreover, since this article was first published in April, more outlets and fact checkers have picked up on these cryptic events. They too, just like Food Processing, are ridiculing the claims made.
Daily Dot, on May 2nd, while noting that these fires are indeed real, the outlet mocked those who think there is more to these fire than mere coincidence.
Is it mere coincidence? Just some bad things happening at the same time? Or is it a sinister plot to starve the United States and cull the herd of useless eaters?
People who assume that nothing happens by accident believe the latter. And they’re spreading an emerging conspiracy theory that food processing plants around the country are being burned down or destroyed as part of a concerted effort to take control of America’s food supply. Starting around April 20, conspiracy blogs and social media accounts began spreading lists of meat-packing plants, food processing facilities, cereal mills, and other buildings related to the packaging of food that had all “mysteriously” burned down or been destroyed.
Perhaps The WinePress is one these “conspiracy blogs…”
Whatever the case maybe, other media outlets have attempted to dispel the rumors. A local Hawaiian news outlet said, “No, people are not setting food processing plants on fire intentionally in order to create a food shortage.” (See additional commentary at the end of this report for my thoughts).
FactCheck.org said on May 4th that “there’s been no significant increase in fires at food production facilities so far in 2022, according to the National Fire Protection Association.”
There have been approximately 20 fires in U.S. food processing facilities in the first 4 months of 2022, which is not extreme at all and does not signal anything out of the ordinary. The recent inquiries around these fires appears to be a case of people suddenly paying attention to them and being surprised about how often they do occur. But NFPA does not see anything out of the ordinary in these numbers.
NFPA spokeswoman Susan McKelvey told the fact checker
However, the information provided by “Reallygraceful” seems to indicate a different story in 2019 as a comparison, for example. Moreover, “The Economic Ninja” is a retired firefighter who worked in that field for roughly 3 decades. It should be noted – as later discussed in this report – the FBI decided to release a warning about these fires all around the same time. Either they are, no pun intended, trying to add more fuel to fire to stoke a false narrative; or perhaps are indirectly admitting something is happening, and are pointing the finger at something, just so they have something to point at in the first place.
Someone(s) are deceived or deceivers: you be the judge.
Chicken Farms Burn And Trains Derail – Update 6/1
The fires have not ceased and the shortages will persist.
In Minnesota a chicken plant was set a blaze with 200,000 chickens inside. Many more were also affected by the smoke inhalation. A bystander who filmed the fire said, “It’s a lot of chickens. It’s a hit to the egg market, it’s people’s jobs, it’s a local community. So any time anything big like that happens, it’s not good.”
As noted in earlier in this report, food is not the only thing being effected. Last week a large train derailment occurred in southern Alberta, Canada, carrying tons of fertilizer ingredients and supplies. This only adds to the rapidly increasing fertilizer shortages.
Courtesy: Rhonda Sauerberg
Just a few days later another train crashed into the Allegheny River, near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. One car of the 17 leaked gas and “sweet crude” into the river, and other plastic pallets.
Courtesy: WTAE
European Factories Forced To Close Due To Energy Costs And Shortages – UPDATE 6/14
Insider reported today that some European factories that produce steel, chemical, and fertilizers, are being forced to shutdown; ‘amid rising costs and concerns that Russia may cut off its supply, per the [Wall Street Journal].’
On top of that it is being reported that energy costs continue scream higher, and restrictions levied against Russia are backfiring.
Therefore, Europe could expect to see even more fertilizer shortages and inflation on those goods, along with other items as well; which will also most likely affect its importers of these goods.
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Meat And Food Plant Fires, And Thousands Of Sheep Drown – Update 6/14
The fires at food processing plants are not stopping.
Last week a fire broke out at a JBS meat plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin. According to Meat + Poultry the fire affected only the roof and did not look to be too severe and was quickly contained. It has resumed normal operations. Last year JBS’ operations were stymied by purported cyber attacks, and another fire that caused “significant damage” at a JBS plant in Nebraska occurred last year as well.
But yesterday a much more severe fire broke out at a food plant in Belmont, Maryland, where crews declared it a “five-alarm fire” (which means it was quite serious).
Moving more Eastward, in Sudan a couple of days ago, a ship packed full of 15,800 sheep mostly drowned as the ship sank in the Red Sea, en route to Saudi Arabia. Of the rough 700 sheep that did survive were found to be very sick and most likely do not have long to live.
The sunken ship will affect the port’s operation. It will also likely have an environmental impact due to the death of the large number of animals carried by the ship.
An official explained
Thousands Of Cattle Dead In Kansas – Update 6/16
Approximately 10,000 heads of feedlot cattle have died in Ulysses, Kansas, which mainstream media was quick to report on after firsthand accounts began to surface on social media platforms. And while feedlot cattle is not the most ethical and humanely raised, or provides the heathiest meats, it still will only increase the shortages at the markets for the masses’ consumption.
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The narrative being purported is that they all died of a heat stroke, or something similar, as temperatures were reportedly over one hundred degrees. But heat is nothing new, so the touted cause of death is dubious. Others online have speculated things like poisonings, 5G and EMFs, or a planned execution that the media has taken to create a narrative.
Bill Gates Funded Grocer Burns Down – UPDATE 7/18
Amidst protests in The Netherlands by farmers rebelling against the country’s climate edicts, that will ultimately result in the loss of their entire livelihoods, a grocery store that has ties to Bill Gates, has been burned down.
According to Dutch News, the store is called Picnic and it completely burned to the ground last week. ‘The fire may have been caused by a short circuit in an electric delivery van, it has been suggested, but investigators are still trying to identify the exact cause,’ the outlet reported.
The New York Post explains that Picnic is store that touts itself as being more climate-friendly, by selling plant-based meats and many other vegan items, transporting deliveries via electric-powered vans. The company’s CEO, Michiel Muller, said last year a good portion of the $604 million in funds they earned came via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Oregon Flour Mill Destroyed In Fire – UPDATE 8/10
The following is by KGW 8:
Firefighters battled a fire that destroyed a building at Pendleton Flour Mills in eastern Oregon. No injuries were reported.
The Pendleton Police Department asked people to stay away from the mill near Southeast Emigrant Avenue and Southeast 6th Street Wednesday morning.
Dispatchers received a report of black smoke coming from the mill on Aug. 9 at 2:55 p.m. Crews with the Pendleton Fire Department extinguished a small fire and remained on scene to monitor the situation. The fire reignited around 4 a.m. and destroyed a building due to dry grain and a wooden structure inside, police said.
As of 10:55 a.m., Pendleton police said crews were able to knock down the flames and were focused on monitoring hot spots. A total of eight agencies are assisting the Pendleton Fire Department.
Although the building is a total loss, this will be an ongoing emergent situation due to the amount of grain that is [slowly] burning.
Said Pendleton Police Chief Chuck Byram in a news release.
Largest Produce Plant In World Catches On Fire In France – Update 9/26
Near Paris, France this past weekend, what is being touted as the world’s biggest produce market caught on fire – a plant to the produces all sorts of sorts fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, meat, flowers, and more.
https://winepressnews.com/2022/09/2...own-creating-even-more-supply-chain-problems/
