Whether you breastfeed, formula feed, or do both, securing sustenance to infants can be both fundamental and fraught. Lesley Frank has been doing research on first food systems and infant-and-caregiver food insecurity for numerous years, and shares her perspectives about sourcing infant formula in the past, present, and future. During the Amuse Bouche segment, Alexia Moyer talks with host David Szanto about the history of milk, including its price, positioning, and propaganda. And in the After Taste, Natalia Alaniz-Salinas responds to Lesley’s article, “Finding Formula,” from the Feminist Food Studies issue of Canadian Food Studies, Vol. 5 No. 1.

Guests:

Dr. Alexia Moyer is co-Managing Editor of Canadian Food Studies and a founding member of the editorial collective, red line-ligne rouge, based in Montreal.

Dr. Lesley Frank a Canada Research Chair in Food, Health, and Social Justice at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. There, she runs the Fed Family Lab, which focuses on the study of family and childhood food insecurity.

Natalia Alaniz-Salinas a PhD Candidate at the University of Saskatchewan, working in Community and Population Health Sciences and addressing school food programs. She previously worked as a nutritionist in Chile.

Mentioned in this episode:

Edible Histories/Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History, edited by Franca Iacovetta, Valerie J. Korinek, and Marlene Epp

“Drink Milk” promotional image – Libraries & Archives Canada

Credits:

Host/Producer: David Szanto

Executive Producers: Rachel Engler-Stringer, Laurence Godin, Charles Levkoe, Phil Loring, Kristen Lowitt

Music: Alex Guz and Evgeny Bardyuzha from Pixabay

Sound Effects: Aviana_Phoenix, BenKirb, and freesound_community from Pixabay

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Digesting Food Studies is funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Lakehead University, and the Canadian Association for Food Studies.