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The Changing Arctic Diet: Adjusting to a Foreign Food System

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Qamutiks (Inuit sleds) lined up outside Iqaluit’s high school. Image by Julie De Meulemeester. Canada, 2018.
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A look into the causes and consequences of food insecurity in Canada’s Arctic, where access to food...

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Image by Julie De Meulemeester. Canada, 2018. 
Image by Julie De Meulemeester. Canada, 2018.

In only a few generations, the Inuit have undergone an important dietary transition. As harvested country foods, such as arctic char and caribou, are supplemented and sometimes completely replaced with store-bought groceries, the Inuit suffer the consequences of an imperfect food system seemingly transposed from southern Canada.

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