After many months of strange fire, explosions, and unexplainable disasters at food production plants across the nation, there finally may be some justice dealt out.
In western rural Iowa in a place called Sac county about an hour east of Sioux City, more than 1,000 hogs were found dead in two confinement sites.
In a police interview, caretaker Elana Laber, 33, insisted that “someone” had turned off the electricity to the pens on Wednesday and that caused the mass die-off, the report said.
Though that account did not line up with how the hogs were found.
The hogs that were found dead were in different states of decomposition, which shows that they all did not die at the same time.
In more interviews with Laber, the police were able to gain a confession from Laber that the hogs had been dying for weeks and she was afraid to tell anyone.
Investigators also learned that there was no access to food and water in the enclosures.
According to officials, which were owned by Corey AGR Inc. of Lytton, Iowa, estimate that the cost of the lost animals came to more than $150,000, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.
The social media post stated that Laber had been charged with two counts of first-degree criminal mischief and two counts of livestock neglect. She was being held in the county jail Thursday on a $22,000 cash bond.
The dead hogs in Iowa are only the latest conflagration to befall livestock in recent months.
If you remember, at the end of May 60,000 chickens were killed in a fire at a ranch in Arkansas.
Then in June, 10,000 fat cattle died in Kansas and officials claimed that it was due to a massive heatwave that had swept the area.
However, the odd occurrences concerning our supply chain are not just limited to livestock.
An entire truckload of peanut butter went up in smoke in a truck fire in Illinois.
June also witnessed seven major farm fires across the United States, causing more disruptions to U.S. food production.
Destructive fires swept over farms in Ohio, Rhode Island, New York, Minnesota, and more.
Global events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine — a major food provider — and the resulting sanctions against Russia — a major exporter of fertilizers — also have brought serious pressure, putting the food chain in peril all across the world, as even President Joe Biden has recognized.
The world is reeling from all the disruptions in the food chain, whether from nefarious acts, natural elements, or war — and all this disruption could not be coming at a worse time for America or the world.
