A food charter as a critical food guidance tool in a rural area: The case of Bruce and Grey Counties in Southwestern Ontario

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | Contributor(s): Donald Cole, Laura Needham, Philly Markowitz | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.497

Food charters have been one means of mobilizing critical food guidance relevant discussions among stakeholders and policy makers in rural areas.  As actors in the rural food system of Grey and Bruce counties, we describe the counties' charter development led by the Food Security Action...

A problematic of plenty

2025-03-19 22:03:22 | Contributor(s): Alexia Moyer, Charles Z Levkoe, Alyson Holland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.475

A window, a mountain, a scape

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

An unconditional basic income is necessary but insufficient to transition towards just food futures

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Contributor(s): Elaine Power, Aric McBay | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.533

In food systems scholarship, the case for basic income to reduce food insecurity is well-established. Less well-appreciated is the potential for basic income to support young farmers, improve rural vitality, promote gender equality and racial justice in agriculture, and assist farmers in...

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

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

Breadlines, victory gardens, or human rights?: Examining food insecurity discourses in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | Contributor(s): Audrey Tung, Reuben Rose-Redwood, Denise Cloutier | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.530

Long before the exacerbating effects of COVID-19, household food insecurity (HFI) has been a persistent yet hidden problem in wealthy nations such as Canada, where it has been perpetuated in part through dominant discourses and practices. In this critique of HFI-related frameworks, we suggest...

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

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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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributor(s): 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...

Critical food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | Contributor(s): Ellen Desjardins, Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.588

In this themed section, we argue that beyond health-related dietary goals for society, food guidance must also reflect the expanding public awareness and uncertainty about the complexities and vulnerabilities of the current food system. Increasingly influential issues include environmental...

Critical food guidance for tackling food waste in Canada: A closed-loop food system alternative to the food recovery hierarchy approach

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Contributor(s): Tammara Soma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.490

Food waste is a complex problem with far reaching negative environmental, social, and economic impacts. To identify appropriate solutions to address food waste, the food recovery hierarchy developed by the Environmental Protection Agency is currently the most popular guiding framework in food...

Critical food guidance from the slow food movement: The relationship barometer

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Contributor(s): Brooke Fader, Michèle Mesmain, Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.509

The Slow Food movement embeds food guidance that encourages interaction with local food production and appreciation of local cuisine. It advocates critical thinking and actions that support the preservation of traditional food practices, as well as environmental considerations around food...

Critical perspectives on food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | Contributor(s): Jennifer Sumner, Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.592

Critical food guidance began as an inspiration, blossomed into a concept and then became a focal point for thinking about food system change. It will continue to evolve as we grapple with the complexities of the industrial food system and work toward alternative approaches. As a step in the...

Critical reflections on "humane" meat and plant-based meat "alternatives"

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Contributor(s): Wesley Tourangeau, Caitlin Michelle Scott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.510

Canadians are among the top meat consumers in the world. Greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, animal stress and suffering, worker health and safety, and cardiovascular disease are among the multitude of issues tied to high rates of meat consumption. In response to rising concern and...

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

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributor(s): 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...

Enacting just food futures through the state: evidence from Brazil

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Contributor(s): Ricardo Barbosa, Estevan Coca | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.540

The state is an important, if sometimes overlooked, terrain of struggle for food activists. To explore the ways and extent to which just food futures can be enacted through the state, we present the experience of Brazil. We argue that activists should seek to advance food policies that have...

Ethnic food practices, health, and cultural racism: Diabetes risk discourse among racialized immigrants in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:00 | Contributor(s): Eric Ng | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i1.548

Type 2 diabetes is more prevalent among racialized immigrant groups in Canada compared to the general population. Hence, “ethnicity” is identified as a risk factor for diabetes, focusing on ethnic differences in health behaviours. By linking ethnic differences and diabetes risk, ethnic food...

Field Notes from RAIR: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributor(s): 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...

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,...

FLEdGE (Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged) Partnership

2025-03-19 22:03:17 | Contributor(s): Alison Blay-Palmer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.539

The Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE) SSHRC-funded Partnership has deep roots in relationships developed over time among academics and community-based practitioners. FLEdGE emerged from community-driven research in Ontario on food hubs and community resilience dating from 2010....