“You could be killed.”
The reality behind some of the world’s cheapest meat.

Now 4k Colorado workers at #JBS are on strike in a historic fight for dignity & safety.

“This strike is a matter of life & death.”

📖 https://grocerynerd.substack.com/p/grocery-update-146-why-jbs-meat-packing by @grocery_nerd

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“Sometimes I feel like I’m counting crackers”: The household foodwork of low-income mothers, and how community food initiatives can support them

Mary Anne Martin

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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/188

“Sometimes I feel like I’m counting crackers”: The household foodwork of low-income mothers, and how community food initiatives can support them | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

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

Seri Niimi-Burch
Jennifer Black

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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/651

Balancing acts: : Unpacking mothers’ experiences and meanings of school lunch packing | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

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Did you enjoy “Balancing acts: Unpacking mothers’ experiences and meanings of school lunch packing” by Seri Niimi-Burch and Jennifer Black in the latest issue of CFS?

Check out this complementary piece in the Conversation: “‘So much mental load’: Mothers speak about school lunches” by Jennifer Black.

https://theconversation.com/so-much-mental-load-mothers-speak-about-school-lunches-237546

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‘So much mental load’: Mothers speak about school lunches

In Canada, where fewer than 10 per cent of kids regularly eat school-provided meals, parents, especially mothers, are left to juggle school lunches, often under major pressure.

The Conversation

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

Seri Niimi-Burch
Jennifer Black

#SchoolLunch #LunchPacking #Foodwork #Carework #Mothering #ParentalPerceptions

#JustPublished #FoodStudies #NewIssue

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/651

Balancing acts: : Unpacking mothers’ experiences and meanings of school lunch packing | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

There's a very odd hierarchy in the food industry about #FoodWork and all I have to say is those that sneer at catering have never seen it done well. Cookie plates for 450. #BeKindtoYourFoodFolks