Let’s Get Mobilized Like many Canadians, I take seriously Trump’s threats to annex Canada. At the very least he wants to tighten the economic screws until annexation looks like our best option….

Welcome! This post is the final in a series that suggests we’ll only develop food systems that are ecological, healthy, just, and morally defensible when we face the challenges of industrial animal…

To the question “What’s for dinner?” the answer is often a single word: chicken, or beef. When meat is the feature, why bother mentioning “sides”? In Western societies, nearly continual meat-eating is…

Versions of this bounce around popular culture — plant-based eating is for privileged (and mostly white) people, and plant-based food is more expensive. But this way of thinking misses three important facts.…

This post is the latest in a series suggesting that we’ll only develop food systems that are ecological, healthy, just, and morally defensible when we face the challenges of industrial animal agriculture….

Why risk talking about industrial meat production and excessive meat consumption? Why take on this controversial topic when we’re already doing challenging and important work? Those are questions some climate and social-justice…

I’ve heard it from climate organizations and food-justice advocates — that asking people to eat less meat is not acceptable. That it feels paternalistic. Annoying. Culturally disrespectful or even colonialist,[1] and maybe…

My introduction to this came at a national food studies conference where I asked a researcher why her scholarly group doesn’t talk about animal agriculture. She hesitated, then said: “Indigenous people eat…

For more than 25 years I’ve been researching and writing about food systems. And for all those years I’ve been surprised and perplexed that so many organizations and colleagues in the food…

Canadians are pushing back on our former ally to the South and its incoherent program of “economic force.” As US leaders shred old alliances, cozy up to Putin, imperil civil rights, and…

This past month there was a conference in Europe that I would have loved to attend. Entitled Defund Meat, it brought together global researchers who recognize that big investment money fuels factory farming,…

This year, the Public Health Association of BC (PHABC) had a brilliant theme for its annual conference: “Commercial Determinants of Health.” BELOW: a screenshot of advertising for the Public Health Association of…