Jiang Ke, who served as a duty manager at McDonald’s for seven months, has experienced the fryer beeps, vacuum-packed shredded lettuce and order screens in its open-plan back kitchen, and seen how waiting and complaints when customers collect their food feed into the store’s rating.
The New York State Attorney General’s office and non-profit Environmental Working Group sued Brazil’s JBS and US Tyson Food, alleging ‘climate-friendly’ industrialised beef claims misled consumers; after settling, the firms withdrew or modified net-zero statements, but environmental labels on packaging still need a verifiable basis.
A state-owned agricultural produce company in the Qingzhou Development Zone ran the Qingzhou Weidao mini programme for the district Agricultural Committee. Subsidies and inspections outweighed sales, and suppliers joined under administrative mobilisation. The project ultimately lost support; local sellers built business through WeChat groups.
After the US military’s airstrike on a primary school in Minab, Iran, and Trump’s announcement of a second round of strikes on Iran, US suburban cars, oil-based agriculture and throwaway consumption are weaving oil dependence and war risk into everyday life.
Foodthink’s sixth-round Lianhe Plan has selected 12 climate action projects from 58 applications, covering ecological restoration, community composting, low-cost risk reduction for smallholders and women’s empowerment.
A former chef who flew from Chiang Mai to Shanghai experienced negative reviews, bill waivers and shopping for ingredients alone at several pop-up dinners. Dianping’s rating weighting left the flying chef mentally and physically exhausted during an experience of freedom.
Typhoon Maysak brought sustained heavy rain, and Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Guangxi, breached, flooding jasmine fields, rice fields and fish ponds. Tens of thousands of residents were relocated, and agricultural insurance and flood resilience issues under extreme weather were highlighted.
At Baicaoyuan in Guigang, Guangxi, a graduate with a bachelor’s degree on Foodthink’s ecological agriculture internship spent a month hoeing, picking up waste, carrying water and sheltering from downpours, re-experiencing work in nature and admitting they still cannot do without air conditioning and the city.
Over five years, Grandma Kouzi has turned barren land into a self-sufficient one-person farm, improved her health indicators, and filed a lawsuit against Baidu AI over its rumour-mongering.
Sun Weimin, longtime village secretary of Village A in Hunan’s Dongting Lake area, has experienced the strictest straw-ban season of 2025: patrols and tower surveillance are constant, baled straw still cannot be sold, and people continue to set fires at night.
