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Utopia Talk / Politics / Food plant fires...a hoax?
Habebe
Member
Sun Jul 03 14:29:58
Weve all seen the news stories. But does anyone habe data onnthe normal frequency of such events?

Ive only seen anecdotal evidence and I'm skeptical that these fires are out of the normal range.

I lived near a chocolate factory in a small town that had weekly fires. It was so common the plant actually helped foot the bill for fire trucks on occasion. So its entirely plausible these events are just a conspiracy theory.
Habebe
Member
Sun Jul 03 14:39:14
http://perma.cc/6FSS-WCZ3

Yeah, seems to be Right wing media sensationalism.
Habebe
Member
Sun Jul 03 14:49:44
If anyone has better data its very welcome.

This doesn't seperate agricultural from Utility/defense and mining.

But until evidence tonthe contrary, it seems this is likley an exaggeration.
Forwyn
Member
Sun Jul 03 14:54:36
Largely anecdotal. Numbers look crazy when you actually start listing them, but these listed never include previous years.

And you start it feel it more strongly when you're repeatedly reading figures like, "3 million chickens destroyed in fire", when you're already seeing the difference on the shelves.
kargen
Member
Sun Jul 03 19:02:55
January 15, 2010 6:11 PM ... The North Star Foods poultry processing plant in St. Charles, Minn. was destroyed by fire in April 2009

Posted May 7, 2010 ... Fire tears through Jordan's Meats site ... The former meat packing plant

Nov 5, 2009 — Demolition of Sinclair meatpacking plant could come in 2010 ... a massive fire damaged the former Farmstead Foods

Jun 21, 2010 — 21, 2010 at 11:21 PM PDT|Updated: Jun. ... The fire at the old Emge Meat Packing Company in Ft. Branch broke out Saturday morning

Industrial Fire World Fall 2010: Page 27 ... Grand Forks, ND: A hopper of flaked potatoes caught fire at a food processing plant. Green River, WY

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