From My Perspective: Something's amiss

I may not watch the news, but that doesn’t mean I’m not informed. Most of my friends who do watch the news hadn’t even heard of the destruction of our food processing and distribution plants.

Those who do know and have been paying attention are very concerned. For those of you who may not have heard, right here in the United States, several of our food supply chains and distribution centers are being destroyed by fire, explosions and planes crashing into their buildings.

I’ve repeatedly said I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but this all seems really fishy - and scary.

According to U.S. News, 18 United States food processing plants and distribution centers have burned down in the past six months. One or two would be a coincidence, three or four, would be scary, but 18 - and one of them the largest independent food distribution center for homesteaders - that’s downright alarming.

Something is going on. General warehouse fires are common; fire departments respond to more than 1000 warehouse fire calls per year. The main cause of those fires are determined to be arson. Fires in food processing facilities, however, are not that common and occur far less often.

The fact is that, since the beginning of the year alone, there have been more than a dozen fires and explosions at food processing plants and distribution centers, not to mention planes crashing into these facilities as well. Let’s start with the most recent and work our way back…

4/21/22 - In Georgia, a small plane crashed into the General Mills food plant, just outside of Atlanta.

4/19/22 - A massive fire destroyed parts of Azure Standard Headquarters in Oregon. They are listed as one of the largest food distribution centers, and used mostly by the homesteading community.

4/14/22 - There was a large blaze at Taylor Farms processing plant in Salinas, Calif. They package bags of salad.

4/13/11 - A plane crashed into Idaho Gem’s processing plant, where more than 18,000 potatoes are processed each year. The pilot of that plane did not survive.

4/11/22 - A massive fire destroyed the East Conway Beef & Pork Butcher shop and meat market in Center Conway, N.H.

3/31/22 - A major fire forced the closing of the Nestle Plant in Jonesboro, Ark. This particular location made frozen foods.

3/31/22 - A blaze at the Texas-based Rio Fresh that destroyed their onion processing plant. They also process and ship Kale, melons and other produce.

3/24/22 - The Penobscot McCrum potato processing plant was destroyed by fire in Belfast, Maine.

3/19/22 - The Maricopa Food Pantry in Arizona was destroyed by fire and more than 50,000 pounds of food

along with it.

3/19/22 - A fire destroyed a one-million square foot Walmart Distribution Center in Plainfield, Ind.

In February, part of Wisconsin River Meats processing plant was destroyed by fire, and the older processing portion of the building was a total loss. Also in February, a potato chip plant that supplies much of the western US with potato and corn chips caught fire. And a third fire in February caused the Indiana-based Louis Dreyfus Company’s soybean and biodiesel plant to suspend operations. They are the largest fully-integrated soybean processing plant in the US.

The list goes on, farther back into 2021 and the months between September and December saw many fires for meat-processing plants throughout the country. It’s important to note, most of the causes of these fires are still under investigation, according to

my research.

You can already see the effects of these fires when you go shopping. Shelves are still empty in places, certain food items are not available and haven’t been for months. You can see in the price of the foods. Those prices are bad now, and likely going to get worse, but the truth is, I’ve been seeing the prices rise, little-by-little, over the last year.

Are you concerned as I am yet? I’ve thought about how this affects us. I’ve thought about measures I need to take to ensure our family will be okay, but for those who aren’t even aware, how will they even prepare? I think we’re lucky in Montana because we know how to - or know someone who knows how to do whatever - hunt, fish, build, etc. For those in cities who rely on grocery stores and don’t know how to garden, preserve foods, stock up, make bread and more - what will they do?

The things I really keep thinking about though? I’m thinking a lot about why all the fires, explosions and plane crashes? And more than why - who? Who is behind it? Someone, or many someones, are causing an awful lot of damage to our food sources. Then it makes me wonder further, what will we do? Why isn’t it being broadcasted far and wide by the media outlets, who can’t stop reporting on Elon Musk buying Twitter for an ungodly amount of money or the latest celebrity defamation trial.

Have we really all just bought in hook-line-and-sinker to follow blindly along with whatever they think we should hear so they - whoever they are - can continue to do evil things behind the scenes while we’re paying attention to what they want us to see?

Something’s amiss, and in my opinion, we all better pay more attention. We all better prepare. We all better pull together, in whatever way that means to you.

Yes, something’s amiss, and it’s worse than I ever could

have imagined.