Provide some sauce on this and perhaps you'll garner some responses. The following definitions are interesting. A hypothesis is an assumption made before any research has been done. It is a conjecture formed so that it can be tested to see if it might be true. A theory is a principle formed to explain the things already shown in data. Your thought is based on these food plant disasters being WH operations. Unfortunately, there's no data supporting this. I'd have to say you have one "wild-ass" hypothesis instead. 😊