evidence and a tucker video provide more on this wave of fires;

Living near an unincorporated community of Northwest Arkansas, I sometimes joke that our would-be town is made up of maybe 40,000 or 60,000, maybe more.

Not people. Chickens. We have thousands of the birds, housed in a large chicken-growing facility close enough for me to hear them clucking and crowing on still Ozark mornings.

I can’t imagine what it would be like if that 600-foot-long structure burned while full of the birds. That happened May 28 in Wright County, Minnesota, as a massive fire consumed a barn at an egg processing plant, killing tens of thousands of chickens.

The fire is part of a continuing string of incidents disrupting the food supply chain during an inopportune time in which there also are problems securing fertilizer and rail transportation — not to mention the cost of the diesel fuel that drives tractors and food shipments.

The blaze occurred at a building of Forsman Farms at Howard Lake, a fourth-generation agricultural operation selling three million eggs per day, according to WCCO.

“Overnight, a fire destroyed one of our barns at our Howard Lake farm,” a Formsman Farms spokesman said. “No one was injured, and we are grateful that first responders were quickly on 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.”

Of course, we’ve been hearing of multiple incidents at recent months at food production facilities. What’s going on?

Google it, and you’ll find the usual fact-checkers purring that there is nothing to worry about.

“False. Accidents and fires at food processing plants in 2022 were not planned to intentionally create food............watch and read more.........