H Province farmer Old Li’s 70 mu of farmland lies under mulch film fragments blown from a neighbouring peanut haulm processing plant. The Ecology and Environment and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureaus deflect jurisdiction onto each other; over two months on, pollution persists and accountability grows ever harder.
Grass-fed yak meat prices on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have fallen year after year, while imported grain-fed meat from Brazil, New Zealand and elsewhere floods Tibetan-area shops at half price — leaving herders who live off livestock in a bind: they cannot sell their animals, nor afford to eat meat.
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…
