Review of Growing and Eating Sustainably: Agroecology in Action

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Review | Autor(es): Richard S. Bloomfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.692

Dana James and Evan Bowness’ book, Growing and eating sustainably: Agroecology in action, provides a portrayal of existing sites of a radically different food system than our present industrial one. The authors explore the origin of agroecology as a social movement, before expanding on the...

The CFS Choux Questionnaire

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Interview | Autor(es): Greg de St. Maurice | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.701

A riff on the well-riffed Proust Questionnaire, the CFS Choux Questionnaire is meant to elicit a tasty and perhaps surprising experience, framed within a seemingly humble exterior. (And yes, some questions have a bit more craquelin than others.) Straightforward on their own, the queries...

Introducing meat studies

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Essay | 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...

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

2025-03-19 22:12:51 | Essay | 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...

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 | Essay | 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...

From greedy grocers to carbon taxes and everything in between: What do we think we know about food prices in Canada and how strong is the evidence?

2025-03-19 22:12:50 | Review | Autor(es): Brian Pentz, Taylor Ehrlick, Ryan Katz-Rosene, Philip A Loring | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.690

In Canada, the task of explaining food prices falls to a handful of grey literature reports that shape media coverage and public understanding and carry significant political and policy influence. We performed an in-depth analysis of fifty-one of these influential reports, including...

Sovereignty of and through food: A decolonial feminist political ecology of Indigenous food sovereignty in Treaty 9

2025-03-19 22:12:50 | Article | Autor(es): Keira A. Loukes | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.660

“Food sovereignty,” a term conceived by peasant agriculturalists in South America, has become ubiquitous worldwide in academic and activist circles advocating for greater local control over local food. Its use has been adopted by various actors in North America, most notably by...

Negotiating farm femininity in agricultural leadership

2025-03-19 22:12:50 | Article | Autor(es): Jennifer Braun, Ken Caine, Mary Anne Beckie | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.646

A growing number of women in the Canadian Prairie region are advancing into leadership roles in agriculture, which remains a predominantly male domain. In this research we explore how professionally and managerially employed women in agriculture in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and...

Can historians order off the menu?: A method for historical menu analysis

2025-03-19 22:12:50 | Article | Autor(es): Koby Song-Nichols | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.682

While historians have used menus to tell part of the histories of restaurants, little guidance has been provided on how we should approach these unique culinary documents. This lack of instruction becomes more apparent in light of the impressive amount of archival work and digitization of...

Reflecting on a decade of Canadian food studies

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Essay | Autor(es): 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...

Urgency to secure funding for the promised national school food program amidst the rise of food costs and chronic disease

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Article | Autor(es): Flora Zhang, Amberley T. Ruetz, Eric Ng | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.681

An overwhelming number of Canadians believe that a national school food program (SFP) would benefit children, but concerns around limited funding are frequently raised. SFPs across Canada are struggling to meet increasing demands due to rising food costs, meaning that food quality and quantity...

Reimagining recipes for food studies: Enriching—not spoiling—the broth

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Article | Autor(es): Stephanie Chartrand, Laurence Hamel-Charest, Raihan Hassen, Anson Hunt, noura nasser, Kelsey Speakman, David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.678

This perspective is a continuation of a conversation started during “Reimagining Food, Food Systems, and Food Studies,” a plenary session in which we, the authors, participated at the eighteenth annual assembly of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS). Assessing current...

Un-learning and re-learning: Reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Report | Autor(es): Alissa Overend, Ronak Rai | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.649

In this reflexive piece, the authors consider the unexpected lessons learned while undertaking a collaborative research project with their home institution’s Indigenous Learning Centre on urban berry foraging. The faculty member questions the ethics of settlers undertaking this work, even if...

Food by Jennifer Clapp

2025-03-19 22:04:02 | Review | Autor(es): Christopher Yordy | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.36

The economic shocks witnessed at the time of the global food price crisis of 2008 were a stress test for governance mechanisms in the global food economy. As the decisions at the top of the largest transnational food corporations are often shrouded in secrecy, the associated patterns of...

The spaces for farmers in the city: A case study comparison of Direct Selling Alternative Food Networks in Toronto, Canada and Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Article | Autor(es): Erin Maureen Pratley, Belinda Dodson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.22

The current focus of Alternative Food Network (AFN) literature in the global North overlooks the reality of Southern AFNs and the potential contributions from studying Southern case studies. In this research, we used interviews and observation to determine how the differing valuations of...

Transitions Stream: Do trade agreements substantially limit development of local / sustainable food systems in Canada?

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Article | Autor(es): Rod MacRae | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.25

A common view in policy and business circles is that certain elements of trade agreements (General Agreement on Tariff and Trade rules, the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture, and the North American Free Trade Agreement) and the Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade significantly...

Reflections of a food studies researcher: Connecting the community-university-policy divide….becoming the hyphens!

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Report | Autor(es): Lesley Frank | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.13

This narrative presents refections on the role of the food studies researcher from the prespective of a new academic with a background in community and policy work. It details a multi-phased, mixed methods case study on the public policy relations of infant food insecurity in Canada and...

"As we fish and farm"

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Article | Autor(es): Kristen Lowitt | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.12

"As we fish and farm" is a short radio documentary that explores a changing food and fishing system in the Bonne Bay region on Newfoundland's west coast. It was developed as part of the interdisicplinary Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance (CURRA) project at Memorial University...

Growing Resistance by Emily Eaton

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Review | Autor(es): Taarini Chopra | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.38

The short history of genetically modified (GM) crops in Canada has been defined by controversy, debates about health and environmental concerns, and deeply entrenched corporate control. The past fifteen years have seen numerous approvals of new GM crop varieties, while just a handful have been...

The Industrial Diet by Anthony Winson

2025-03-19 22:04:01 | Review | Autor(es): Julie Pilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.41

Anthony Winson, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, has written or co-authored several books that explore agriculture, food and the food system in both North and Central America. These books include: Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica...