Another day another food facility fire

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nisryus

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Yeah, just saw the news about food factory fires. So far 11 out of 3k+, so won't really affect supply chain. Most of the fires were investigated and 90% were of accident or aged equipment related.

Only weird one was at a plant that had been closed for a while.
 
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just to put it to rest

www.snopes.com

Are Fires at Food Processing Plants a 'New Trend'?

The real trend here is an uptick in fear-mongering over food-supply shortages.
www.snopes.com www.snopes.com

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The article suggests there’s been a “strange trend” of food processing facility fires in the last six months. However, the article starts with a link to a 2019 news article. After including two additional links to news stories published in August 2019, the author writes that “just days later” there was a fire at a meat processing facility in Atlanta. By our count, the “just days” here is referring to a span of more than 700 days.
 
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nakedfrog

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brianmanahan said:
i'm friends with a guy on FB who is sure these food factories are being burned down by the global elite in an attempt to starve %90 of the world to death
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That same "news" chain is probably what brought it to OP's attention.
 
ultimatebob

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nakedfrog said:
That same "news" chain is probably what brought it to OP's attention.
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Umm... WTKR, the local CBS affiliate for Virginia Beach?

They aren't exactly known as a hotbed for conspiracy theories. A good place to get a beach forecast, though :)
 
nakedfrog

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ultimatebob said:
Umm... WTKR, the local CBS affiliate for Virginia Beach?

They aren't exactly known as a hotbed for conspiracy theories. A good place to get a beach forecast, though :)
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Nope, that's not what I mean, not sure if you're being fatuous or you really don't know what I mean, hard to tell with you.
 
Red Squirrel

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Actually there has been a lot. Snopes is just dismissing it but if you lookup each of the articles in that picture they are real. None of these seem to be linked or even malicious in nature, but it is kind of odd. Maybe it's just due to staff downsizing across the board? Less maintenance happening?
 
Captante

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If Snopes is dismissing something there's a pretty good chance it rates being dismissed.
 
ultimatebob

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nakedfrog said:
Nope, that's not what I mean, not sure if you're being fatuous or you really don't know what I mean, hard to tell with you.
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I'm not doing my job around here unless I keep you guessing! :)

(I was pretty sure that you weren't talking about WTKR, but I'm not sure which media outlet you WERE talking about. Probably something in the right-wing fringe if I had to guess.)
 
nakedfrog

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ultimatebob said:
I'm not doing my job around here unless I keep you guessing! :)

(I was pretty sure that you weren't talking about WTKR, but I'm not sure which media outlet you WERE talking about. Probably something in the right-wing fringe if I had to guess.)
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Not a media outlet at all, the "news" chain that brought it to his attention.
 
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There may not be an unusual surge(which is the sole scope of the snopes “debunking”) but food factories going up in flames do mean they are dangerous if going by the residential standard of n=1 is one fire too many.

However, Snopes, knowing readers are generally emotional, dumb, and poor in reading comprehension, writes in such a manner to make people feel more than just the “unusual trend” aspect is being debunked, to the point people will feel fires are normal, acceptable, and just part and parcel of the business.

One of the articles in the Timcast article is from thefencepost.com, which does analyze quite deep into economic impacts for that particular incident.
 
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According to Lavrov Hitler was part Jewish so it was a NAZI space laser :colbert:
 
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nisryus said:
just to put it to rest

www.snopes.com

Are Fires at Food Processing Plants a 'New Trend'?

The real trend here is an uptick in fear-mongering over food-supply shortages.
www.snopes.com www.snopes.com

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The article suggests there’s been a “strange trend” of food processing facility fires in the last six months. However, the article starts with a link to a 2019 news article. After including two additional links to news stories published in August 2019, the author writes that “just days later” there was a fire at a meat processing facility in Atlanta. By our count, the “just days” here is referring to a span of more than 700 days.
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Kinda disappointed Snopes didn’t actually reach out to the US Fire Administration. Every fire report I fill out goes to both the state and federal (NFIRS) governments to look for trends.

There’s specific codes for livestock production facilities (659), Crops or Orchard (655), Grain Elevator/Silo (816), Livestock/Poultry storage (819) for example among the many property use codes.

I’m pretty sure they could have found reports listing the number of fires in those types of facilities for recent years and answered the question a lot more definitively than simply scanning for news articles.

Having said that, I’m not aware of any quantitative reports of increasing fires in those types of facilities.
 
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I know a few people who think meat processing facilities are being targeted to force us all to become vegan
 
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