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Squeezing Processors Will Lead to Higher Prices and Less Choice

Oct 28, 2020
3 min

Squeezing Processors Will Lead to Higher Prices and Less Choice

Food retailers are getting a lot of attention lately related to increases in supply chain fees imposed on their suppliers. These fees are...

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Circumstances Creating Opportunities for Direct to Consumer

Mike von Massow

Oct 26, 2020
2 min

Circumstances Creating Opportunities for Direct to Consumer

Our food system has adapted remarkably well to the pressures of the COVID pandemic. We have also seen some adaptation to the change in...

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Ag System Labour Crisis is about Farm Security not Food Security

Mike von Massow

Oct 16, 2020
3 min

Ag System Labour Crisis is about Farm Security not Food Security

The COVID pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated long standing issues with respect to labour in the food system - both on farms and in...

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Mike von Massow

Dec 31, 2019
3 min

Reflecting on Past Trends Reports

The Food Focus team generates an annual Food Trends Report to highlight key factors that will be front and center in the food discourse...

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Mike von Massow

Dec 6, 2019
3 min

Protecting Farms not about Hiding Abuse

The Ontario government has introduced a bill to protect farms from harassment by animal activists. We’ve seen groups of animal activists...

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Cook, Eat, Work, Thrive: A semi-regular home cook’s plea

Molly Gallant

Oct 4, 2019
6 min

Cook, Eat, Work, Thrive: A semi-regular home cook’s plea

I should start this post off by reassuring readers that this is not some sort of “get healthy quick scheme” offering 7 easy steps to...

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Mike von Massow

Sep 26, 2019
3 min

Apocalypse Cow?

A recent report predicts that the North American beef and dairy cattle industry will be significantly disrupted by the development of...

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Is Canada’s food policy biting off more than it can chew?

Mike von Massow

Jun 24, 2019
2 min

Is Canada’s food policy biting off more than it can chew?

Last week, the Government of Canada released “Everyone at the Table”; a food policy for Canada. It has an ambitious agenda covering a...

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Produce price trends: comparing current prices and historical averages

Mitchell Gingerich

May 15, 2019
3 min

Produce price trends: comparing current prices and historical averages

There is no doubt that food prices have been increasing on average in 2019, mostly driven by the cost of fruit and vegetables.

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Meat consumption is changing but it’s not because of vegans

Mike von Massow

Mar 13, 2019
4 min

Meat consumption is changing but it’s not because of vegans

A piece that my colleagues Alfons Weersink, Molly Gallant and I published in the conversation.com on March 11th, 2019. Meat consumption...

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Vegan virtue signalling complicates trend interpretation

Mike von Massow

Mar 4, 2019
2 min

Vegan virtue signalling complicates trend interpretation

Vegans and vegetarians have been getting considerable attention. The move to increasingly plant-based diets was reinforced by the newly...

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From cannabis edibles to plant proteins: 2019 food trends

Mike von Massow

Feb 13, 2019
5 min

From cannabis edibles to plant proteins: 2019 food trends

A piece that my colleagues Alfons Weersink, Aaron De Laporte, Liam Kelly and I published on the Conversation on February 12th, 2019. Food...

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Keep up with the conversation here.

Squeezing Processors Will Lead to Higher Prices and Less Choice

Circumstances Creating Opportunities for Direct to Consumer

Ag System Labour Crisis is about Farm Security not Food Security

Reflecting on Past Trends Reports

Protecting Farms not about Hiding Abuse

Cook, Eat, Work, Thrive: A semi-regular home cook’s plea

Apocalypse Cow?

Is Canada’s food policy biting off more than it can chew?

Produce price trends: comparing current prices and historical averages

Meat consumption is changing but it’s not because of vegans

Vegan virtue signalling complicates trend interpretation

From cannabis edibles to plant proteins: 2019 food trends

RELATED PROJECTS

Considering the complexity of food, it is no surprise that conversations about it can be broad and diverse. In order to better understand how people think about food, Mike is involved in several projects. Learn more about each project below.

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH SUSTAINABLE RESTAURANT PROJECT