Stunned and devastated to hear of the death of Tony Corbo of Food & Water Watch, a trusted source of many years. For journos who cover line speeds at meatpacking plants—a key topic exposed for all to see by the COVID crisis—Tony provided crucial info. https://www.marlerblog.com/lawyer-oped/tony-corbo-fight-like-you-live-here/

Line speeds at meatpacking plants— as high as 390 for cattle, 1,295 pigs, or 10,500 birds per hour—are a national disgrace, a sign of a nation that values corporate profits over workers' lives. They represent the moral failure of the last several presidential administrations, not

...just Trump (but definitely Trump too.) Tony was tireless in getting the word out about their devastation. He was an encyclopedia about it too. I will miss him. I know some USDA-FSIS & meat industry flacks who definitely won't. A very sad day.

I was remiss, in this thread, not to mention something Tony cared about a lot: food safety. He was an expert on how ever-faster lines and ever-dwindling regulation threatened consumer health through pathogens like salmonella.