Another Food Processing Plant Shutters Operations, Adding To Long List Of Closures

A top food processing plant will be closing down one of its facilities in Campbell County, Tennessee, adding to the long list of closures over the last year. George's Prepared Foods announced its chicken processing plant in the small town of Caryville would be shuttering operations by the end of the summer

George’s Food Closes

• Senior Vice President of George's Food, Robert George, released a statement about the closure, citing it's "a challenging time to be in the prepared foods business."
• George didn't explain what "challenging time" meant and if that was due to rampant inflation pressuring operating margins.

The announcement of the closure pushed up the number of closed US food processing plants over the last year to 100.

• The list below are plants destroyed, damaged, or impacted by "accidental fires," disease, or other causes:
• 1/11/21 A fire that destroyed 75,000-square-foot processing plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina
• 4/30/21 Firefighters battled a large fire at Tyson’s River Valley Ingredients plant in Hanceville, Alabama
• 9/13/21, a fire at the JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Neb., on Sunday night forced a halt to slaughter and fabrication lines
• A five-alarm fire ripped through the Darigold butter production plant in Caldwell, ID
• At least 130 cows were killed in a fire in Stowe, Tennessee
• An early morning fire tore through the milk parlor at Bess View Farm in Stoddard, Missouri
• Three people were injured, and one was hospitalized, after an ammonia leak at Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont
• 2/15/22, The Shearer's Foods plant in Hermiston, Oregon caught fire after a propane boiler exploded
• 3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
• 243,900 chickens destroyed in New Castle, Delaware
• 663,400 chickens destroyed on farms in South Dakota, Nebraska, and South Dakota

Fire Breaks Out at a Food Processing Plant West of Waupaca County in Wisconsin

• Over 10,000 head of cattle have reportedly died in the recent Kansas heat wave
• Irrigation water was canceled in California and storage water flushed directly out to the delta
• Fire has also destroyed several buildings in Wisconsin

World Economic Forum (WEF) technocrats urged people to ditch meat for "climate beneficial foods"

• Part of the new world order is to reset the global economy and reengineer what people eat

 

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