Critical food guidance

Authors

  • Ellen Desjardins EditorCanadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation
  • Jennifer Sumner

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.588

Keywords:

critical food guidance, food guide, dietary sustainability, food sovereignty

Abstract

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 change, agriculture-related pollution, food worker injustice, animal welfare, persistent household food insecurity, food waste, and fish stock depletion. No form of food guidance can address all these complex phenomena, but many people want to be informed and empowered to make change. Accordingly, academic and citizen groups have been devising an assortment of directives, recommendations, principles, and charters to promote alternative food environments and food behaviours that cumulatively support sustainable food systems. These on-going debates and efforts can collectively be termed critical food guidance.

Author Biography

Ellen Desjardins, EditorCanadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

Ellen has had a long career in public health nutrition and healthy food systems in Toronto and Waterloo. With a PhD in human geography, she is now a research associate at the University of Waterloo. Her past work included food-related policy and program development at the federal and provincial (Ontario) levels. Co-chairing the Waterloo Food Systems Roundtable, Ellen helped develop a food systems strategy, municipal food policies and a food charter for the Region. She was a founding member of Food Secure Canada and the Canadian Association for Food Studies. Ellen’s research centres on food and place, or how people experience and interact with their food environment. She has acted as principal investigator for a number of major research projects.

the fishing boat of Danny Wick of DCW Fishing Sales, Vancouver Island

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Published

2022-04-14

How to Cite

Desjardins, E., & Sumner, J. (2022). Critical food guidance. Canadian Food Studies La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.588

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2022): Critical perspectives on food guidance

Section

Themed Section

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