Another day another food facility fire

[Red Squirrel]

Chesapeake Fire responds to industrial fire at Perdue Farms facility

A fire took place at Perdue Farms facility in the South Norfolk area of Chesapeake Saturday evening.

www.wtkr.com

These seem to be happening a lot lately.

 

[ultimatebob]

Chesapeake Fire responds to industrial fire at Perdue Farms facility

A fire took place at Perdue Farms facility in the South Norfolk area of Chesapeake Saturday evening.

www.wtkr.com

These seem to be happening a lot lately.

They do love their chicken BBQ's down in Virginia

 

[nisryus]

Yeah, just saw the news about food factory fires. So far 11 out of 3k+, so won't really affect supply chain. Most of the fires were investigated and 90% were of accident or aged equipment related.

Only weird one was at a plant that had been closed for a while.

 

[brianmanahan]

i'm friends with a guy on FB who is sure these food factories are being burned down by the global elite in an attempt to starve %90 of the world to death

 

[pete6032]

i'm friends with a guy on FB who is sure these food factories are being burned down by the global elite in an attempt to starve %90 of the world to death

I heard Nancy Pelosi and Putin are planning a coordinated a DDoS attack against ATOT on May 17th. We all know how many millionaire elites there are here so it only makes sense.

 

[nisryus]

just to put it to rest

Are Fires at Food Processing Plants a 'New Trend'?

The real trend here is an uptick in fear-mongering over food-supply shortages.

www.snopes.com

The article suggests there’s been a “strange trend” of food processing facility fires in the last six months. However, the article starts with a link to a 2019 news article. After including two additional links to news stories published in August 2019, the author writes that “just days later” there was a fire at a meat processing facility in Atlanta. By our count, the “just days” here is referring to a span of more than 700 days.

 

[nakedfrog]

i'm friends with a guy on FB who is sure these food factories are being burned down by the global elite in an attempt to starve %90 of the world to death

That same "news" chain is probably what brought it to OP's attention.

 

[ultimatebob]

That same "news" chain is probably what brought it to OP's attention.

Umm... WTKR, the local CBS affiliate for Virginia Beach?

They aren't exactly known as a hotbed for conspiracy theories. A good place to get a beach forecast, though

 

[nakedfrog]

Umm... WTKR, the local CBS affiliate for Virginia Beach?

They aren't exactly known as a hotbed for conspiracy theories. A good place to get a beach forecast, though

Nope, that's not what I mean, not sure if you're being fatuous or you really don't know what I mean, hard to tell with you.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Actually there has been a lot. Snopes is just dismissing it but if you lookup each of the articles in that picture they are real. None of these seem to be linked or even malicious in nature, but it is kind of odd. Maybe it's just due to staff downsizing across the board? Less maintenance happening?

 

[Captante]

If Snopes is dismissing something there's a pretty good chance it rates being dismissed.

 

[ultimatebob]

Nope, that's not what I mean, not sure if you're being fatuous or you really don't know what I mean, hard to tell with you.

I'm not doing my job around here unless I keep you guessing!

(I was pretty sure that you weren't talking about WTKR, but I'm not sure which media outlet you WERE talking about. Probably something in the right-wing fringe if I had to guess.)

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm not doing my job around here unless I keep you guessing!

(I was pretty sure that you weren't talking about WTKR, but I'm not sure which media outlet you WERE talking about. Probably something in the right-wing fringe if I had to guess.)

Not a media outlet at all, the "news" chain that brought it to his attention.

 

[Torn Mind]

There may not be an unusual surge(which is the sole scope of the snopes “debunking”) but food factories going up in flames do mean they are dangerous if going by the residential standard of n=1 is one fire too many.

However, Snopes, knowing readers are generally emotional, dumb, and poor in reading comprehension, writes in such a manner to make people feel more than just the “unusual trend” aspect is being debunked, to the point people will feel fires are normal, acceptable, and just part and parcel of the business.

One of the articles in the Timcast article is from thefencepost.com, which does analyze quite deep into economic impacts for that particular incident.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Maybe it's space lasers, eh Squirrely?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Maybe it's Jewish space lasers. Trying to rid the world of non kosher food.

 

[Torn Mind]

Maybe it's space lasers, eh Squirrely?

Didn't you make a space laser thread?

Hmm...

 

[sdifox]

According to Lavrov Hitler was part Jewish so it was a NAZI space laser

 

[Torn Mind]

The simplest conspiracy is that the vegans did it.

 

[pete6032]

The simplest conspiracy is that the vegans did it.

Do vegans actually do anything? Do they even exist?

 

[Torn Mind]

Do vegans actually do anything? Do they even exist?

Animal Rights Terrorists: What Every Neuroscientist Should Know

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[FirNaTine]

just to put it to rest

Are Fires at Food Processing Plants a 'New Trend'?

The real trend here is an uptick in fear-mongering over food-supply shortages.

www.snopes.com

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The article suggests there’s been a “strange trend” of food processing facility fires in the last six months. However, the article starts with a link to a 2019 news article. After including two additional links to news stories published in August 2019, the author writes that “just days later” there was a fire at a meat processing facility in Atlanta. By our count, the “just days” here is referring to a span of more than 700 days.

Kinda disappointed Snopes didn’t actually reach out to the US Fire Administration. Every fire report I fill out goes to both the state and federal (NFIRS) governments to look for trends.

There’s specific codes for livestock production facilities (659), Crops or Orchard (655), Grain Elevator/Silo (816), Livestock/Poultry storage (819) for example among the many property use codes.

I’m pretty sure they could have found reports listing the number of fires in those types of facilities for recent years and answered the question a lot more definitively than simply scanning for news articles.

Having said that, I’m not aware of any quantitative reports of increasing fires in those types of facilities.

 

[Captante]

Animal Rights Terrorists: What Every Neuroscientist Should Know

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Limousine company I dispatched for years ago did most of the driving for a certain Norwalk CT-based surgical company which was notorious for doing animal-testing.

They received frequent credible threats of violence and there were occasional incidents. Security was extremely tight.

 

[Ferrari355]

I know a few people who think meat processing facilities are being targeted to force us all to become vegan

 

[Red Squirrel]

Another one!

Another Food Processing Plant Catches Fire Amid Bizarre String of Incidents Across US

More food processing plant fires took place this weekend, adding to a string of strange incidents at these facilities.

www.westernjournal.com