Decolonizing the learning of sitopias in Toronto: The case of the Canadian Cuisine Photography Challenge

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Report | Contributor(s): Chloe Kavcic, Andrea Moraes, Lina Rahouma | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.469

The Canadian Cuisine Photography Challenge is a pilot experiential learning activity created at Ryerson University for the class FNU100-Canadian Cuisine: Historical Roots, a first/second year liberal studies course offered to students from diverse programs and cultural backgrounds. This...

From a study of the Newfoundland and Labrador school food system: : Describing an evolution in ways of knowing about school food

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Article | Contributor(s): Emily Doyle | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.471

In this perspective piece I reflect on the importance of considering the place of schools within broader systems for critical school food study and intervention. These reflections are based on my study of school food in Newfoundland and Labrador from a systems perspective which helped reveal...

Towards a common understanding of food literacy: a pedagogical framework

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Article | Contributor(s): Kimberley J Hernandez, Doris Gillis, Kathleen Kevany, Sara Kirk | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.467

Food literacy is an evolving term fundamental to both health and education.  The concept of food literacy typically has been informed by nutrition-focused thinking, with particular emphasis on food skills.  Moving beyond this traditional focus is necessary to address...

Reflecting on food pedagogies in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Essay | Contributor(s): Michael Classens, Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.572

The original deadline for submissions for this special issue was March 1, 2020, just days before the destabilizing and disorienting first wave of pandemic-related shutdowns in many parts of Canada. The (r)evolution in food systems pedagogy we were hoping to document and celebrate was promptly...

A Review of Facing Catastrophe? Food Politics and the Ecological Crisis By Carl Boggs

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Review | Contributor(s): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.552

In his most recent work, Facing Catastrophe, Boggs takes aim at the environmental movement and calls for radical reform. The author argues that political change matching the extent of the ecological problems we face is urgently needed, and that “there can be no routine, painless ‘greening’ of...

Une Recension du livre Diners, Dudes and Diets

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Review | Contributor(s): Janie Perron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.549

Diners, Dudes and Diets by Emily Contois offers a unique opportunity for readers to deepen their understanding of the gendered nature of food in the historical context of the United States. In her book, Contois illustrates how the industry contributes to the construction of gender binaries to...

Cultivating critical and food justice dimensions of youth food programs: : Lessons learned in the kitchen and the garden

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Article | Contributor(s): Tina Moffat, Sarah Oresnik, Amy Angelo, Hanine Chami, Krista D'aoust, Sarah Elshahat, Yu Jia Guo | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.547

In this article we present accounts of two youth food programs operating at a Community Food Centre. One program, Kids Club, engages children, aged 6 to 12, in cooking and gardening activities; the other, Cookin' Up Justice, is directed to adolescents (13 to 18 years) and explores food justice...

Food, Pandemics, and the Anthropocene – On the necessity of food and agriculture change

2025-03-19 22:13:14 | Article | Contributor(s): Marit Rosol, Christoph Rosol | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.532

The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates forcefully that human health, the well-being of animals, and planetary health must not be viewed in isolation—and that they all depend to a large extent on the ways in which we produce, process, trade, and consume food. In this perspective essay, we argue for...

Seizing this COVID moment: What can Food Justice learn from Disability Justice?

2025-03-19 22:13:14 | Article | Contributor(s): Martha Stiegman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.525

It is now a shameful truism that COVID-19 functioned as a big reveal, exposing, and amplifying the structural inequalities Canadian society is built upon. We are now a year and a half into the global pandemic. I am writing from Toronto, where “hot spots” (neighbourhoods with high infection...

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 | Essay | 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...

“Good healthy food for all”: Examining FoodShare Toronto´'s approach to critical food guidance through a reflexivity lens

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Contributor(s): Alessandra Manganelli, Fleur Esteron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.503

By building community-based food systems informed by transformative ideologies and principles, Community-Based Food Organisation (CBFOs) can be understood as agents of critical food guidance from the bottom-up. This paper focuses on the notion of reflexivity as pivotal to the implementation of...

The de-meatification imperative: To what end?

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Contributor(s): Tony Weis, Rebecca A Ellis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.511

Meatification describes a momentous dietary transformation: the average person on earth today consumes nearly twice as much animal flesh every year as did the average person just two generations ago, amidst a period of rapid human population growth and with marked disparities between rich and...

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

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | 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...

Reframing food as a commons in Canada: Learning from customary and contemporary Indigenous food initiatives that reflect a normative shift

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Essay | Contributor(s): Jodi Koberinski, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol, Joseph LeBlanc | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.504

This paper interrogates the role of the dominant narrative of “food-as-commodity” in framing food systems policy in Canada. Human values shape policies, usually privileging those policies that are aligned with dominant values and neglecting others that confront dominant values. In that sense,...

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

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Essay | 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...

Food policy councils and the food-city nexus: The History of the Toronto Food Policy Council

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Essay | Contributor(s): Lori Stahlbrand, Wayne Roberts | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.505

This field report links food and city policies by tracing the history of the Toronto Food Policy Council and offers our experience-based suggestions regarding the concept of critical food guidance, which we associate with capacity-building and providing opportunities for civic engagement on a...

The evolution of Haudenosaunee food guidance: Building capacity toward the sustainability of local environments in the community of Six Nations of the Grand River

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Essay | Contributor(s): Hannah Tait Neufeld, Adrianne Xavier | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.502

The emerging literature on the Indigenous food movement identifies community involvement, family-centred food education and re-establishing a relationship with the land as essential to restoring sustainable food systems, land and water access. These processes of reclamation have similarly...

How to enhance the good health and well-being of Canadians: Effective food and meal-based guidelines and policies that fit the facts and face the future

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Essay | Contributor(s): Jean-Claude Moubarac, Jane Y. Polsky, Milena Nardocci, Geoffrey Cannon | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.500

Diet-related diseases and disorders in Canada are a national public health emergency, now and as projected. One main reason is that the national food supply has become increasingly dominated by ultra-processed food and drink products, mostly snacks, that displace dietary patterns based on...

Religious food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:11 | Essay | Contributor(s): Michel Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.514

This article reviews some of the ways in which food intersects with religion and argues that people’s religious food habits prepare them to critically engage the food they eat. Religious food guidance is presented through five categories: permanent food restrictions, temporary food...

Critical food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:10 | Essay | 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...