Generations of gardeners regenerating the soil of sovereignty in Moose Cree First Nation: An account of community and research collaboration

2025-03-19 22:12:56 | Article | Autor(es): Michael Robidoux, Keira A. Loukes, Emalee A. Vandermale, Tegan J. Keil, Janice Cindy Gaudet | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.637

The challenges northern remote communities in Canada face acquiring regular access to affordable and healthy food have been well documented. Our Indigenous Health Research Group, made up of an informal network of researchers from universities across Canada, has partnered with northern...

Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

2025-03-19 22:12:55 | Article | Autor(es): Alexa Rae Ferdinands, Oleg Lavriv, Mary Beckie, Maria Mayan | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.627

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented attention and funding toward addressing household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada. In Edmonton, a virtual "City Table" was developed to coordinate the myriad of HFI responses and begin to explore and address systemic issues underlying...

Food system resilience tested: The impact of COVID-19 on a major node in North America’s produce supply chains

2025-03-19 22:12:55 | Article | Autor(es): Sarah Elton, Evan Fraser, Ruth Siew | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.626

At the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, many warned that the resilience of the global, industrial food system would be tested. We conducted regular interviews in 2020 with key actors at the Ontario Food Terminal, North America’s third largest produce wholesale market, to better understand...

Distasteful: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry - Showcasing the Dark Side of Food Service

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Review | Autor(es): Stefanie Foster | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.675

A review of Annika Lusis's contemporary art piece, Distasteful: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry , presented as part of the Exploration Gallery at the 2023 Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) Conference. 

Une critique de l’œuvre d’art contemporain d’Annika Lusis,...

Review of Ultra-processed people: Why we can’t stop eating food that isn’t food

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Review | Autor(es): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.684

Given the ubiquity of UPF, this book fills a vital gap in our knowledge. Thankfully, it is easy to read, combining research and interviews with personal anecdotes and amusing glimpses of van Tulleken family life. For those of us involved in food studies, the book adds an extra layer of...

with ChatGPT

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Interview | Autor(es): David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.688

For this Choux Questionnaire, we turned to ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot. Given the challenges and opportunities that AI presents to academic practice, teaching, and writing, we thought it might be intriguing to use these responses as a means to interpret ChatGPT’s ‘perspectives’ on food...

Intersections of race, COVID-19 pandemic, and food security in Black identifying Canadian households: A scoping review

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Review | Autor(es): Keji Mori, Elizabeth Onyango | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.630

Although studies have identified food insecurity as a racialized inequity issue disproportionately affecting Black identifying Canadians, research exploring how anti-Black racism across multiple systems create inequities including increased risk for food insecurity among African Caribbean...

Le territoire agroalimentaire en tant qu’attrait touristique au Québec: Réflexion à l’égard des représentations d’une destination gourmande à partir du concept de terroir

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Article | Autor(es): Ronaldo Tavares de Souza, Pascale Marcotte, Laurent Bourdeau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i3.612

Terroir products are characterized by the uniqueness of the territory where they are produced. This uniqueness is used to promote them, but it may also serve to trigger the interest of individuals in this territory. Starting in Europe and linked to wine, the concept of terroir is expanding all...

A window, a mountain, a scape

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

The framing of food in Canadian university classrooms: A preliminary analysis of undergraduate human nutrition sciences, dietetics, and food studies syllabi

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Article | Autor(es): Andrea Bombak, Michelle Adams, Sierra Garofalo, Constance Russell, Emma Robinson, Barbara Parker, Natalie Riediger, Erin Cameron | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.659

There are numerous “positivity” movements circulating such as sex positivity and body positivity that affect how sexuality and bodies are discussed, including in educational contexts. These movements have provided alternative discourses that challenge constructions of sexualities and bodies as...

Envisioning a community food hub to support food security: A community engagement process at a post-secondary institute

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Article | Autor(es): Sarah Clement, Sara Kozicky, Cassandra Hamilton, Rachel Murphy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.645

Objective: The objective of this community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) project was to gain an in-depth understanding of the needs, interest and opportunities that exist within a post-secondary institution with respect to supporting food security among students via a food hub....

Food insecurity in books for children: A qualitative content analysis

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Article | Autor(es): Dian Day | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.654

Issues of class and poverty are largely absent from children’s fiction and from elementary school curricula, even though, in Canada, one in every five children live in food insecure households. This paper examines the limited number of middle grade children’s books that feature depictions of...

Opportunities and challenges for school food programs in Canada: Lessons from the United States

2025-03-19 22:12:53 | Article | Autor(es): Amberley T. Ruetz, Janet Poppendieck | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.665

As Canada works towards developing a national school food program, it is timely to examine the lessons learned from the programs of other countries. Analyzing these insights can help Canada avoid key pitfalls and replicate promising practices in program design and implementation. 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 | Essay | 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Essay | 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...

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

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

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

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

A review of food asset maps in Canada

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Article | Autor(es): Belinda Li, Tammara Soma, Raghava Payment, Srishti Kumar, Nicole Anderson, Flora Xu, Phonpoom Piensatienkul | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.655

Food asset mapping is gaining prominence in Canada as an important planning tool for the evaluation of local food systems. In addition to being used by planners to identify opportunities for improved food security, food asset maps are also valuable references for sourcing food locally,...

Balancing acts: : Unpacking mothers’ experiences and meanings of school lunch packing

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Article | Autor(es): Seri Niimi-Burch, Jennifer Black | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.651

While Canadian policy makers are considering expanding school food programs in Canada, parents remain primarily responsible for packing lunches. Although women perform disproportionate amounts of foodwork, including feeding their children on school days, little research has investigated...