Deconstructing ‘Canadian Cuisine’: Towards decolonial food futurities on Turtle Island

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Hana Mustapha, Sharai Masanganise | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.563

As scholars and community activists, to secure a just food system, we must first acknowledge our complicity in hierarchal power structures that shape structural inequities by questioning the underlying socio-political currents and interrogating the dominant relationships within our food...

Field Notes from RAIR: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Lauren Wood Kepkiewicz, Danielle Boissoneau, Terran Giacomini, Ayla Fenton, Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Sarah Rotz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.565

In this field notes section we explore our work as a collective of Indigenous and settler academics, food providers, and community-based organizers, including how we came together over several plates of nachos and a shared vision of deepening our relationships to land rooted in...

Racism, traditional food access, and industrial development across Ontario: Perspectives from the fields of environmental law and environmental studies

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Kristen Lowitt, Jane Cooper, Kerrie Blaise | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.562

Racism and industrial development across lands and waters in the province of Ontario have played a significant role in decreased access to traditional food for Indigenous peoples. Traditional food access is important for health reasons, as well as cultural and spiritual wellness, and its loss...

Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Leticia Ama Deawuo, Michael Classens | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.631

The impetus for this themed section came out of the broader reckoning that touched off in the summer of 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The Canadian Association for Food Studies board, like so many organizations struggling to respond to such brazen violence, released a...

Transition, coherence, resilience and joy

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Canadian Food Studies | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.652

These four nouns are taken out of the article titles on offer in this issue. Uncover within the systemic transitions taking place, the coherence required, the resilience that has emerged, and the joy that may be found in food production, distribution and consumption. With this issue also comes...

A window, a mountain, a scape

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): L. Sasha Gora | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.676

Is cell-based meat a climate solution for Canada? : Interpreting lifecycle footprints within the domestic agri-food context

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.629

Interest and technological know-how in cell-based meat production has grown tremendously in recent years. The appeal is wide ranging, but two main drivers include: i) the possibility of producing edible meat without requiring the slaughter of sentient animals; and ii) the potential to...

Protein politics: Sustainable protein and the logic of energy

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Maro Adjemian, Heidi Janes, Sarah J. Martin, Charles Mather, Madelyn J. White | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.628

Powerful actors associated with intensive livestock production are repositioning industrially produced meat and farmed fish as “sustainable protein.” This repositioning, we show, involves justifying the production of meat through a range of metrics, calculations, and valuations. These metrics...

Comment promouvoir la consommation de protéines végétales : Une revue de la littérature de presse

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Coralie Gaudreau, Laurence Guillaumie, Emmanuelle Simon, Lydi-Anne Vézina-Im, Olivier Boiral | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.613

The consumption of plant proteins has several benefits in terms of health, the environment and the development of the agri-food sector. Despite the advantages linked to the consumption of plant proteins, the consumption of meat often remains favored. This article presents a literature review...

Beef, Beans, or Byproducts? Following Flexitarianism’s Finances

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Kelsey Speakman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.638

Flexitarianism was one of the top food trends of the summer in 2020. Characterizing reductions in meat eating as representative of the reflections on personal and societal health that were taking place at the time, Canada’s largest food retailer, Loblaw situated the company’s expanded...

Industrial meat in Canada, growth promoters and the struggle over international food standards

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Elizabeth Ann Smythe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.632

This article focuses on differing national regulations and standards regarding how meat for human consumption is produced and what is permissible in that production process. Attempts to harmonize these regulations at the global level to facilitate international trade have proven to be...

Producing protein: Fractionation of animal bodies, mass consumption of cheap protein, and the value of protein sourced from industrial hog operations

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Katie MacDonald | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.635

This article claims that the pursuit of protein specifically, not meat in general, is woven into the very fabric of industrial hog farming and the devalued animals at its centre. Further, this piece forces a critical lens and reclassification of the value of protein sourced from confined...

Meat politics at the dinner table: Understanding differences and similarities in Canadians’ meat-related attitudes, preferences and practices

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Emily Kennedy, Shyon Baumann, Josée Johnston | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.529

Few food groups are subject to the same depth and scope of critique as meat. Yet little is known about how the Canadian public feels about meat production and consumption. In other jurisdictions, meat has been a politically polarizing topic; thus, we focus our analysis on political differences...

Introducing meat studies

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ryan J. Phillips, Elisabeth Abergel | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.691

A growing, though still loosely connected, body of academic work has started placing meat at the centre of critical discourses regarding climate change and environmental sustainability, human health, economic wellbeing, food futures, and animal and ecological ethics. This special themed issue...

Reflecting on a decade of Canadian food studies

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Rachel Engler-Stringer, Laurence Godin, Charles Z. Levkoe, Alexia Moyer, David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.702

In this editorial, the Management Team of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (CFS/RCÉA) looks back across the history of the journal and towards its future. They collectively reflect on the journal’s ethos, its range of publications, and what the future...

Voices and visuals from the Canadian foodscape

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.43

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation, the open-access, online journal of the Canadian Association for Food Studies/l’Association canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (CAFS/ACÉA). Our journal arrives on the scene in the...

“Ways of knowing” in food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:56 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.76

What do we mean by food studies? Is it a distinct field or not, and what might it encompass? This issue starts, poignantly, with a commentary that summarizes some intense deliberations on these questions at CAFS 2014, the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Food Studies. The authors...

Mapping the state of play on the global food landscape

2025-03-19 22:03:49 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.103

The global food landscape is changing rapidly. In 2007–08 food prices soared and remained volatile in the following years, effectively leading to a world food crisis that drove tens of millions of people into poverty and hunger. A phenomenal increase in large-scale farmland acquisitions in...

Inspiring and informing through food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:46 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.156

Often, the ordinariness of familiar terms or concepts belies their complexity and hidden sides, necessitating closer scrutiny. “Big data” is one such phenomenon, upon which Bronson and Knezevic shine a critical spotlight. Showing how current data sources and data collection technologies differ...

Transformations revealed through food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | অংশগ্রহণকারী(রা): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.197

This issue brings us food-related research and perspectives from across Canada, from Nunavut and the Northwest Territories to central Alberta, Kenora (Ontario), and Nova Scotia. A common thread weaves throughout this work: one of transformative change—either already in progress or still...