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

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Contributor(s): 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...

Protein politics: Sustainable protein and the logic of energy

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Contributor(s): 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...

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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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 | Contributor(s): 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...

Perceptions and practice in an evolving food system

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.238

No abstract.

Opportunities and spaces for change in food environments

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.292

The contributions to this issue of Canadian Food Studies manifest a keen insight: with different media, methods, and voices, we continue to reimagine spaces for food—where and how we consume and grow food, and how we position it into an increasingly democratic, commensal domain. The more food...

Filling our plate: A spotlight on feminist food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Brady, Barbara Parker, Susan Belyea, Elaine Power | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.308

The idea for this special issue emerged from the enthusiastic response to a day-long series of sessions on feminist food studies that were held during the joint conference of the Canadian Association of Food Studies, the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and the Agriculture, Food,...

From bitter to sweet: Continuing the conversation on Indigenous food sovereignty through sharing stories, engaging communities, and embracing culture

2025-03-19 22:03:38 | Contributor(s): Kelly Skinner, Tabitha Robin Martens, Jaime Cidro, Kristin Burnett | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.323

The desire to undertake a special issue on Indigenous Food arose during a conversation that took place between the co-editors following a panel on the same topic at the annual conference of the Native American Indigenous Studies Association in 2015. The panel contained a mixture of...

Special issue on Indigenous Food

2025-03-19 22:03:38 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.324

In the spring of 2016, I had a conversation with Dr. Kelly Skinner at the University of Waterloo that led to the mutual decision that we work towards a special issue of Canadian Food Studies on Indigenous Food. She was well connected with Canadian researchers, writers, activists, and artists...

Special issue on building an integrated Food Policy for Canada: An open letter to the Canadian food policy community

2025-03-19 22:03:34 | Contributor(s): Peter Andrée, Charles Z. Levkoe, Amanda Wilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.335

This editorial introduces the special issue of Canadian Food Studies, “Building an integrated Food Policy for Canada”. In a letter to the food policy community, the guest editors assert that the federal government’s development of a Food Policy for Canada will be just the beginning. Many...

Introduction to the special issue on food procurement

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner, Lori Stahlbrand | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i1.350

Canadian Food Studies evolves

2025-03-19 22:03:30 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins, Wesley Tourangeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.369

no abstract

Introduction to the special issue on the social and informal economy of food

2025-03-19 22:03:27 | Contributor(s): Irena Knezevic, Charles Z. Levkoe, Phil Mount, Connie Nelson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.379