Large American food processing plants are burning down at a record rate. With the disruption of wheat due to Russia’s war on Ukraine and President Biden’s warning about inevitable food shortages, this news story becomes more ominous.

No evidence so far has shown any conspiracy but it is suspicious.

At least 18 food processing facilities have burned down in the last six months. Two of the fires were started by small planes crashing into the plants, including a Georgia General Mills plant. Another small plane his the Gem State Processing Plant near Heyburn in East Idaho. That plant oversees 18,000 acres of Idaho potatoes and apparently a nationwide potato shortage is coming.

This includes plants in Oregon, California, Idaho, New Hampshire, Texas, Arizona, Indiana, (Jonesboro) Arkansas, Wisconsin, Washington, Louisiana, (Kansas City) Kansas, Nebraska and Tennessee.

And what is puzzling is that apparently the Food and Drug Administration and no other federal agency is investigating the causes or looking into possible connections. Local authorities are looking into these fires but only ones in their jurisdiction. Some plants have recovered and are back on line while others are trying to rebuild so they can resume distributing food without laying off employees.

Americans have had shortages of certain foods for more than two years due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Supply chain issues continue to leave some grocery shelves empty.

This is a problem and it could be serious, particularly since Biden is trying to divert corn from food to gasoline.

Federal authorities need to find out if this is an attack and take steps to protect our food supply.