ANOTHER fire devastates Minnesota chicken farm, killing tens of thousands of chickens that provide eggs for the food supply
BY ETHAN HUFF
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(Natural News) Almost unbelievable, yet another food facility in the United States was burned to the ground over Memorial Day weekend.
At least one large barn at Forsman Farms in Minnesota housing egg-laying chickens was turned into a pile of ash, reports indicate. The cause of the fires remains unknown. (Related: There have been dozens of similar fires in recent months all targeting food facilities.)
“It was unbelievable how quick it grew; it was insane,” said Andy Trebesch, a neighbor who observed flames at the facility around 10 p.m. on Saturday night. “It was the whole sky; it was quite large.”
The Trebesch family immediately called 911, which sent firefighters from multiple agencies across Wright County to the site. Many of these firefighters are volunteers.
One barn housing tens of thousands of chickens was completely leveled in what a farm spokesperson called a “tragic accident.”
Forsman Farms, by the way, has been around since 1918. It is a massive fourth-generation business that sells more than three million eggs per day to some of America’s largest retailers.
“Overnight, a fire destroyed one of our barns at our Howard Lake farm,” the spokesperson added. “No one was injured and we are grateful that first responders were quickly on the scene to put out the fire.”
“Unfortunately, chickens were lost because of the fire. We are evaluating the extent of the damage – which appears to be confined to a single structure – as well as investigating the cause of the fire.”
Was the Forsman Farms fire arson or an accident?
Eddie Olson, a resident of nearby Cokato, says he heard about the fire on his scanner, which he typically uses to track severe weather events.
“Fires are scary in general, but when you see something of that scale you know, out of control,” Olson told a local police affiliate. “It was just hard to, you know, to think about the chickens, the company, you know, people that work there.”
“It’s kind of a hard hit because we’re already struggling, you know, with the eggs and the cost of stuff and that takes kind of a bite out of the market.”
The extent of the damage at Forsman Farms is still under investigation, as is the cause of the fire. Its timing and synchronicity with other recent fires of a similar nature are certainly suspicious, to say the least.
The egg supply, in particular, has already been under attack by the new avian flu narrative, which suggests that chickens and other fowl are contaminated with another disease that requires their flesh and eggs to be destroyed.
As we reported back in early April when the bird flu hysteria was starting to gain traction, the government is using the same fraudulent PCR tests that it used for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) to test birds for avian flu – which means the whole thing is probably another fraud.
The combination of bird flu propaganda and this new fire in Minnesota attacking egg-laying hens is all too convenient in light of the “Great Reset” agenda that appears to be well underway.
“At least we know why these animal viruses popped up recently now,” wrote someone at Natural News about the bird flu situation.
“The silly thing is they suggest that killing the animals is the best way to deal with the situation. If the virus was deadly, wouldn’t the animals already be dying from it?”
“Control the food, control the people,” wrote another, citing a popular trope about how dictatorships often form.
To keep up with the latest news about the coordinated attack on both the national and global food supplies can be found at FoodCollapse.com.
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Update On Food Plants Blowing Up:
More Explosions, More Stress on Domestic Food Supply
BY JEFF REYNOLDS
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Over the past several weeks, PJ Media has covered the growing number of food plants across America that have caught fire, exploded, or had planes crash into them. More food processing plants, and more industrial fires of note, have occurred since those reports.
As we reported on May 2:
To be crystal clear: no pattern has yet emerged. The incidents still appear random. Nobody has produced a connection between all these incidents.
There are just a LOT of them, and they’re continuing.
The FBI has not made any mention of the fires, plane crashes, and explosions, but it has issued an alert about cyberattacks possibly timed to disrupt the grain harvest season.
Well, in the subsequent month, several more incidents have occurred.
Last week, a large chicken processing facility burned in Minnesota, killing tens of thousands of chickens.
That came on the heels of another large chicken processing facility catching fire. On May 23, the Cargill plant in London, Ontario, suffered “significant damage” from a large fire over a holiday weekend.
Structure fire at 10 Cuddy Blvd, crews have knocked it down and are in the process of overhaul. Upon arrival heavy fire and smoke conditions that crews were able to knock down and gain access to extinguish the fire. #LdnOnt@LdnOntFire pic.twitter.com/EAjKtZ3o8x
— London Fire Department (@LdnOntFire) May 23, 2022
The plant employs about 700 people and processes a large number of chicken products for McDonald’s.
Somewhat related, over the Memorial Day weekend, a chemical plant in Omaha suffered several explosions and significant fire damage.
Jim Geraghty at National Review made the point that the number of such disasters hasn’t actually increased:
What we’re likely experiencing is the “Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon,” a.k.a. “frequency illusion” — when you hear a term and then feel like you’re suddenly seeing it everywhere. In reality, whatever you’re observing is occurring at the same frequency, it’s just that you didn’t notice it or ignored it before.
Because of the empty shelves earlier this year, people are paying much closer attention to supply chains these days. During the pandemic, many of us experienced sudden disruptions to our usually steady supplies of many varieties of food, as some meatpacking plants briefly shut down because of Covid outbreaks, and potato growers found it harder to get their spuds to consumers. (There was also that hacker attack on a major beef supplier in early 2021.) Then in January, tens of millions of Americans caught the Omicron variant at the same time, leading to disruptions to shipments of all kinds of products, and thus empty shelves and product shortages across the country. And those supply-chain problems still haven’t been worked out.
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), which PJ Media quoted in the May 2 article, has since examined the reports of food plant incidents to determine if a trend has emerged. NFPA reports:
Messerschmidt said food processing plants, like most industrial facilities, are prone to fires. “Food is fuel,” she said. “So as soon as you’re operating with food, you have something that is combustible.” On top of that, Messerschmidt added, you may have heat from cooking, high-pressure systems, combustible dust, and other risk factors for fires and explosions present at these facilities.
While Messerschmidt hopes the focus on these fires will shift away from the conspiracy theories surrounding them, she said there is still value to examining what went wrong in particular incidents.
“We need to pay more attention to the fire protection measures that are in these facilities, make sure they’re maintained, and make sure they continue to function so that when you are doing work in these kinds of plants you can make sure you control the risk that’s inherent,” she said.
NFPA probably could have avoided setting off more alarm bells with the title of its article — “Nothing To See Here” — and by not relying on the phrase “experts say” to make its point. But the point stands: there are lots of fires in America, and as PJ Media reported earlier, no trend has emerged.
Any number of factors could be at play, including the proclivity of fire to break out at these plants, supply chain stresses, deferred maintenance, and the possibility of insurance fraud and arson, which is hardly unheard of. We have also seen some high-profile cyberattacks, and the FBI has warned that more could be on the way.
So, while no trend has emerged, it’s still something to keep an eye on, and it continues to cause more stress on an already overburdened domestic food supply system.