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Food Systems nut who also happens to be a foodie. Writes Thin Ink, Lead Reporter for Lighthouse Reports, co-founder of Kite Tales Myanmar, founder of Myanmar Now, & former correspondent with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
A diary from the Myanmar-Thai border, where a plate of pork offal skewers on sticks becomes a rare taste of home. A new fellow in Kayin State waxes lyrical about the joys of eating the typical & beloved street snack. kite-tales.org/en/article/p... #whatshappeninginmyanmar #journalism #myanmar
The Pork Offal Skewer Stall
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Do you need a maths degree to read a food label? Kind of! This week's Thin Ink digs into the global fight over front-of-pack labelling, the single policy that has drawn more industry lawsuits than any other in our Big Food vs. The People investigation. news.thin-ink.net/p/whats-in-a...
What’s In A Label?
The battle over food labels and healthy diets
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A diary from outside Insein Prison's gates, where every Myanmar New Year, the military junta pardon prisoners at a whim. Our fellow stood among them, months after her own release, searching a crowd of strangers for names she recognised from inside. kite-tales.org/en/article/p...
Prison gates
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595 years. That is the combined length of litigation governments have had to fight just to defend basic public health policies against UPF giants. Yes, this week's Thin Ink is all about the investigation @lighthousereports.com published two days ago. news.thin-ink.net/p/big-food-v...
Big Food vs. The People
239 lawsuits. 595 years of litigation. One playbook.
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#BigFood - out-of-control, causing huge damage to #PublicHealth, and fiercely opposed to the public interest. A few profit and the rest of us pay www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘If all else fails, sue’: how ultra-processed food firms are using the courts to obstruct health rules
Exclusive: Global investigation reveals 235 lawsuits have been brought against governments in five countries since 2010
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Latest investigation with @thinink.bsky.social, give it a read. Our food increasingly makes us sick, and we found that when governments try to protect us, they get sued by big food companies like Coke & Pepsi. The lawsuits add up to nearly six centuries! www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Big Food vs. The People
We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies
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This week's issue is a little late because I was waiting for a groundbreaking investigation by colleagues at @lighthousereports.com to be published. I return to a recurring theme: corporate concentration & power that benefits the few at the expense of the many. news.thin-ink.net/p/who-slaugh...
Who Slaughters the Competition?
2.5 years after violent protests, a look at what’s actually threatening French cattle farmers
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At the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum, journalist and co-founder of The Kite Tales @thinink.bsky.social reflected on returning home during Burma's democratic opening, voting for the first time, and the fragile hope that emerged in the interval between decades of military rule and the 2021 coup.
I'm in the throes of a monster deadline, so this week's Thin Ink is shorter than usual. But I still couldn't let the week pass without writing about: - trade law, one of the things that I think is chronically underrepresented in food systems conversations, news.thin-ink.net/p/trade-law-...
Trade, Law, & Livestock
An extension of last week’s theme + does the EU want to feed the world, or sell expensive prosciutto?
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Commercial Determinants of Health sounds like academic jargon. It isn't. It means: your health isn't just shaped by your choices. It's shaped by what's available, affordable, & relentlessly marketed to you by companies with deeper pockets than most governments. news.thin-ink.net/p/the-invisi...
The Invisible Hand Making You Sick
Commercial Determinants of Health sounds like academic jargon. It isn’t.
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A diary from a border town that has become increasingly lawless, leaving people afraid to even help each other and living in mutual suspicion instead. Our fellow experienced this first-hand when she had a motorcycle accident. kite-tales.org/en/article/l...
Living in Fear
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What if one of the biggest problems with modern food systems is that we value food almost entirely by price? I spoke with @joseluisvivero.bsky.social about food as a commons, what the “tragedy of the commons” gets wrong, & how food might be governed differently. news.thin-ink.net/p/food-as-co...
Food As Commons for Beginners
A Conversation with Jose Luis Vivero Pol
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DYK that... - European farms spent €16.4 billion on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser that never reached crops? - GHG emissions from rice paddies have doubled over past 70 years, making it one of agriculture’s biggest & least discussed climate problems? My latest: news.thin-ink.net/p/farmings-t...
Farming’s Triple Loss
Wasted fertiliser billions, rice paddies' rising emissions, & regen captured by Big Food
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It was fantastic to attend the Oslo Freedom Forum earlier this month, to support @thinink.bsky.social promoting @kitetalesmm.bsky.social Her urgent message: Myanmar's destruction of independent media and return to dictatorship is not an exception - it's a warning www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoL...
Thin Lei Win | From Dictatorship to Democracy and Back Again
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Our co-founder @thinink.bsky.social speaking at this year's @oslofreedomforum.com www.instagram.com/reel/DZnHvE5...
thekitetales on Instagram: "I voted for the first time in my life in 2015. I never thought that day would come. Then the military took it all back.Our co-found…"
I voted for the first time in my life in 2015. I never thought that day would come. Then the military took it all back.Our co-founder @thinink spoke at @osloff about what it means from Dictatorship to Democracy and Back Again.🔗 Link in bio to learn more #Myanmar #OsloFreedomForum #Democracy #KiteTales #Journalism
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This is the gutter racism and transphobia Anheuser-Busch was always buying. That it can't offer even pat disavowals of these ugly behaviors after the fact demonstrates the extent to which it is in thrall to/terrified of Trump and the MAGA base.
Anheuser-Busch Is Getting the Bigotry It Paid for With Bud Light's UFC Deal
June is Pride Month, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the social media feeds or press releases of the country’s biggest beverage-alcohol companies. Less than two years into the second Trump admi...
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Last week, my food systems & my Myanmar work collided. I went to a municipal farm in Oslo, cuddling sheep & talking to the manager, before going on stage telling 1,000+ people not to forget Myanmar. I also listened to many inspiring speakers who galvanised me. news.thin-ink.net/p/from-food-...
From Food Systems to Dictatorships and Back Again
Notes from Oslo, including how not to be Will Smith
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Myanmar friends & contacts, pls share! "The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking applicants for the position of Myanmar Researcher to investigate, analyze, and advocate against human rights abuses in Myanmar and related regional issues." job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...
Researcher, Myanmar
Multiple Locations Considered
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“Why China? It’s the elephant in the room in the global food system... There’s still so much inaction in the whole food system. And here, there’s just massive action," Matthew Kessler, host of @tabledebates.bsky.social's latest podcast, Feeding 1 in 6, told me. news.thin-ink.net/p/how-china-...
How China Shapes What the World Grows & Eats
Based on TABLE’s latest podcast: Feeding 1 in 6
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The countdown to the Oslo Freedom Forum is on, and @thinink.bsky.social will soon join us in Oslo, Norway.
This new diary chronicles the plight of undocumented Myanmar workers in Thailand. This is a longstanding crisis but has unfortunately intensified since the junta started enforcing its conscription law. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar kite-tales.org/en/article/s...
So Long as We Have Shelter
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New on Thin Ink: Ahead of Colombia’s high-stakes presidential elections this week, our partners at @cuestionpublica.com exposed a massive corporate playbook. While the country pioneered "healthy taxes" on ultra-processed foods, Big Food is pushing back hard. 🧵👇 news.thin-ink.net/p/sugar-powe...
Sugar, Power, & A Vote On Colombia’s Diets
The Battle Over Colombia’s Lunch Boxes Has Reached The Ballot Box
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Here's an investigation we did with the fantastic team at @cuestionpublica.com that really shines a light on our unhealthy food environments & the enormous challenges faced by both consumers & governments trying to curb the consumption of foods that harm our health. Please read & share!
Lighthouse Reports@lighthousereports.com · 2mo agoEvery year, bad diets kill millions of people and cost trillions of $. The world’s largest food companies say they want to be part of the solution. But behind closed doors, companies lobby governments to derail public health laws.
Displacement changes where people live, but it doesn’t erase their voices, ambitions, or stories. This powerful piece by a former fellow follows a young man navigating uncertainty while holding on to the determination to document the realities around them. kite-tales.org/en/article/d...
From Displaced Youth to Journalist
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👥👥 New Thin Ink, fresh from the World Health Assembly in Geneva, where the dominant chatter included funding cuts, disease outbreaks & need for public-private partnerships. 🫶🏻🥹❤️🩹 But can the PPPs ever be equal when one party has more resources than the other? news.thin-ink.net/p/for-richer...
For Richer, For Poorer
The Unholy Matrimony Between The UN & Corporations
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I'll be speaking at @oslofreedomforum.com about return of dictatorship in Myanmar, critical role of independent local journalists, why we need to keep supporting them & what we at @kitetalesmm.bsky.social have been doing. If you find yourself in Oslo, please come say hello. oslofreedomforum.com
New Thin Ink. DYK that Philip Morris once owned Kraft and RJ Reynolds Nabisco? So when people say Big Food borrowed Big Tobacco's playbook, they mean it quite literally. Also: "eat less ultraprocessed food" sounds simple until you ask who's doing the cooking. news.thin-ink.net/p/from-food-...
From Food Shocks to Foodwork
An extended Thin’s Pickings on resilience, greenwashing, and UPFs
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📆 Happening tomorrow! The New Geopolitics of Food LAUNCH WEBINAR. As crisis after crisis hits food systems, what will it take to stabilise prices & build more resilient, self-reliant food systems? With incredible speakers @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, @thinink.bsky.social, @commonmolly.bsky.social
WEBINAR | The New Geopolitics of Food
Register now for this webinar on how to reduce dependence on global markets, stabilise food prices, and build resilient food systems.
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I first heard "political economy" in 2022. Since then, I've met so many smart, well-meaning people who kept saying: yes, the food system is skewed, yes power shapes who wins and loses, but it's too complicated, too sensitive, and too hard to tackle. news.thin-ink.net/p/the-politi...
We produce enough staples & calories to feed everyone. So why is 1 in 5 people in 47 countries going hungry? Latest Thin Ink is on 4 new reports that paint a picture of systemic failures in how we grow, distribute, finance, & protect food. 🔗 news.thin-ink.net/p/on-hunger-heat-and-markets-making
