Most readers will remember how, throughout 2020 and 2021, the US and other western nations experienced a rash of explosions and fires that burned down dozens of food processing plants. Those mysterious fires came so fast and furious that they exacerbated supply chain issues that had already resulted from the COVID pandemic, creating frequent shortages of all manner of foodstuffs, many of which took months to relieve.
This phenomenon, which many believed was part of an organized campaign to create panic and uncertainty leading up to the 2020 elections and beyond, eventually ran its course, and we haven’t seen much news in this area for more than a year now.