I'll copy my comment from above right here because this story always bugs me:
The first is the monmouth plant, which I own a home near. The plant wasn't damaged at all, there was a fire on the side of the building that was quickly put out.
The second is the Memphis Kellog plant. That was a big fire that was deemed accidental, a broken conveyor belt caused overheating and it started the fire. The plant was up and running in two days.
The third is the JBS beef plant, the fire was due to a motor shitting out on a rendering fan which ignited some roof material - it was installed too close to the ceiling and OSHA cited them. The fire happened Monday morning, by Tuesday everything was back to normal.
The fourth is the Cobb meat plant which turned out to be an insurance scam.
I went ten deep and they all seemed pretty normal. People don't seem to realize that fires happen a lot at these kind of plants. I grew up working at the Purdue chicken plant all through high school and we had seven fires in five years, none ended production for more than a few hours.
I know people are going to call me whatever for this, but this story is one of my pet peeves since I live in a hardcore ag town and see fires all the fucking time. So many corners are cut and so many shitty rigged things get put up and OSHA doesn't bother anyone because it's ag, then a fire happens.
There are more than 40,000 processing plants in the US. Every year, going back to 1960 when they started tracking it, there were around 1500-2500 fires at these plants.
This is excellent info. Thank you. Not only does it call into question some sort of orchestrated take down of our food supply, but it relieves (or, it should relieve) a lot of anxiety for many people.
I'll copy my comment from above right here because this story always bugs me:
The first is the monmouth plant, which I own a home near. The plant wasn't damaged at all, there was a fire on the side of the building that was quickly put out.
The second is the Memphis Kellog plant. That was a big fire that was deemed accidental, a broken conveyor belt caused overheating and it started the fire. The plant was up and running in two days.
The third is the JBS beef plant, the fire was due to a motor shitting out on a rendering fan which ignited some roof material - it was installed too close to the ceiling and OSHA cited them. The fire happened Monday morning, by Tuesday everything was back to normal.
The fourth is the Cobb meat plant which turned out to be an insurance scam.
I went ten deep and they all seemed pretty normal. People don't seem to realize that fires happen a lot at these kind of plants. I grew up working at the Purdue chicken plant all through high school and we had seven fires in five years, none ended production for more than a few hours.
I know people are going to call me whatever for this, but this story is one of my pet peeves since I live in a hardcore ag town and see fires all the fucking time. So many corners are cut and so many shitty rigged things get put up and OSHA doesn't bother anyone because it's ag, then a fire happens.
There are more than 40,000 processing plants in the US. Every year, going back to 1960 when they started tracking it, there were around 1500-2500 fires at these plants.
This is excellent info. Thank you. Not only does it call into question some sort of orchestrated take down of our food supply, but it relieves (or, it should relieve) a lot of anxiety for many people.