From deforested ranches in the Amazon to European supermarket shelves, Marcel Gomes of Brazil’s investigative organisation Repórter Brasil pieces together the route by which JBS and other Brazilian meat firms put illegally deforested beef into global markets.
The National Health Commission has launched a three-year “Weight Management Year” campaign, but obesity is a systemic problem shaped by food systems — ultra-processed foods, salty takeaway and pseudo-healthy foods are the real culprits. True weight loss relies on eating fresh, minimally processed foods.
I. The Seed Bottleneck In Guzhai Yao Township, Mashan County, north of Nanning, farmers’ incomes had soared thanks to growing chayote seedlings, but since last year, they have been plunged into a crisis: they have no seeds to plant. Guangxi experienced several bouts of extreme rainfall in 2024. In Mashan…
Foodthink’s “Eat Something Good” column has received dozens of readers’ letters, each naming a different moment: the plastic smell of a takeaway box, a delivery rider’s bleeding hand on a snowy day, the phone set down after tallying the delivery fee.
From Shenyang to Hubei, several small merchants describe how the platform uses traffic as leverage to push prices down to the point of running at a loss. Behind the 10-yuan Pin Hao Fan, merchants cut back on ingredients while delivery riders see their per-order income shrink.
Cat Alliance is turning a cornfield in Heshun, Shanxi, into a bond between North China leopards, villagers, and urban audiences through ecological agriculture without chemical fertilisers or pesticides – exploring a new path for conservation and community coexistence.
A 2023 investigation by The Examination and The Washington Post found at least ten registered dietitians with over 10,000 followers accepted payment from the American Beverage Association and the Canadian Sugar Industry Association to promote aspartame and natural sugars without disclosure. AND’s principal sponsors are these very companies.
I. Airborne Plastic Blight With spring ploughing imminent, Li Jidong, a farmer from Nuomizhuang Village in Luanzhou, Hebei, found himself unable to plough his land. Across his 70 mu of farmland, fragmented pieces of plastic mulch of various sizes, blown in from a nearby farm, were scattered everywhere. They covered…
Foodthink’s Take On 16 February, Foodthink hosted an in-person sharing session centred on *Fake Meat Displaces Real Meat*, a featured work of the Lianhe Creative Project. The author and guest panellists engaged in a lively discussion on topics such as the impact of imported meat and the future of traditional…
I. The Great Australian Egg Shortage For the first time in my life, I found myself unable to afford eggs. This past New Year, my family and I rented an Airbnb in Sydney, Australia, to ring in the new year. Being unfamiliar with the area, we did all our shopping…
