Food activism and negotiating the gendered dynamics of public cultures of care

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Autor(es): Teresa Lloro, Frecia González | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.537

A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships with food from a variety of vantage points. In this article, we are especially interested in feminist food sovereignty, feminist political ecology, and feminist theories of care, both because...

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

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Autor(es): 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...

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 | Autor(es): 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...

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 | Autor(es): 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Autor(es): 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...

Inspiring and informing through food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:46 | Autor(es): 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...

Introducing meat studies

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Autor(es): 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...

Introduction to the special issue on food procurement

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

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

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

Introspecting food movements in Canada: Unpacking tensions towards justice and sustainability

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Autor(es): Amanda Wilson, Charles Z Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.524

Over the past decades there has been a notable growth in community-based food systems projects and successes. Despite these advancements, food insecurity, precarious food work, ecological degradation, and corporate conglomeration in the food sector all continue to increase, compounded by the...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Autor(es): 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...

Mapping the state of play on the global food landscape

2025-03-19 22:03:49 | Autor(es): 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Autor(es): 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...

Momentum is building for a school food program for Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:03 | Autor(es): Debbie Field, Carolyn Webb | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i3.618

We’re at a tipping point towards our goal of ensuring that all children and youth can access healthy food at school. With momentum building for a Canada-wide school food program, and with many provinces and territories making their own investments and developing programs, we have a collective...

O is for open (as well as optimal, operable, optimistic, organic)

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Autor(es): David Szanto, Alexia Moyer | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.513

Much as we might like to think of the academy as an enlightened domain of pure knowledge creation, it is inextricably linked to financial and corporate influences. The business of academic publishing is a complex ecosystem of actors, processes, expectations, and perversions. Many of us have...

Opportunities and spaces for change in food environments

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Autor(es): 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...

Perceptions and practice in an evolving food system

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

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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 | Autor(es): 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...

Protein politics: Sustainable protein and the logic of energy

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Autor(es): 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...

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 | Autor(es): 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...