Foodthink Says On 7 March, Foodthink published an article titled *Farmland Polluted by Plastic Mulch Film, Absurd Buck-Passing Between Authorities*, documenting a farmer’s predicament: his fields were contaminated by plastic mulch film discharged during processing by a neighbouring enterprise. Yet the local ecological environment bureau and agriculture and rural affairs…
Selected work of the 2024 Foodthink Lianhe Creative Programme“Fake Meat” Ousts Real Meat: Dining Tables, Herders and the AmazonThe English version has been officially published on Sixth Tone (澎湃新闻’s English-language platform). It has been slightly abridged from the original draft. We thank Sixth Tone’s editors and our readers for their…
Foodthink Says 21 March is International Forest Day, with this year’s theme, “Forests: A Valuable Source of Food”. Yet on the other side of the world, Brazil’s beef industry continues to expand at the cost of felled forests and lost biodiversity. Faced with international demands to halt deforestation, major meat…
At the press conference of the recent National People’s Congress, the National Health Commission proposed a three-year ‘Weight Management Year’ campaign. This initiative aims to guide society in cultivating habits that prioritise weight awareness, scientific nutrition, and exercise, fostering scientific weight loss and a healthy lifestyle. Everyone should take primary…
I. The Seed Bottleneck Farmers in Guzai Yao Ethnic Township, Mashan County, north of Nanning, saw their incomes rise sharply from growing chayote seedlings. Yet since last year, they have found themselves with nothing left to plant. 2024 brought multiple spells of extreme rainfall to Guangxi. In Mashan, the relentless…
Foodthink says Was there ever a moment when you suddenly decided to stop ordering takeaway? On 1 March, Foodthink’s new column “Eat Something Good” opened a call for submissions for ‘100 Moments You Realise You Never Want to Order Takeout Again’, and we were inundated with responses from readers. As…
Advertised under the banner “zero delivery fees, meals from ¥10”, Meituan’s “Pin Hao Fan” has seen office workers flock to it, drawn by its aggressive low-price strategy. Though the saying “you get what you pay for” lingers in the public consciousness, sparking concerns over food safety, I’ve had my own…
In the 2025 Spring Festival release *Ne Zha 2*, the leopard demon Shen Xiaobao won over audiences with his witty and endearing portrayal. Yet, his grievous injuries and uncertain fate in the film bring to mind the endangered North China leopard (*Panthera pardus japonensis*) of the real world. This subspecies,…
“Are the supplements recommended by XX, the influencer nutritionist, actually effective?” a friend asked me quietly at a dinner party. As a Registered Dietitian in the US, I have long grown accustomed to acting as my friends’ “last line of defence” on all things nutrition—whenever a high-profile creator’s recommendations are…
I. The Sudden Mulch Film Crisis Spring ploughing is imminent, yet Li Jidong, a farmer in Nuomizhuang Village, Luancheng City, Hebei, finds himself unable to till his land. Scattered across his 70-mu (approximately 11.5 acres) field are fragments of plastic mulch of all sizes, blown in from a neighbouring operation.…
