Grass-Fed Beef: Is it Really a Sustainable Alternative?

Is grass-fed meat really a better option for people and the planet? How can something be sustainable when it might not even be feasible?

8 Tips on How to Avoid GMO Foods

There are many ways you can avoid GMO foods. These tips will help you reclaim control and navigate grocery stores with confidence and ease for a better shopping experience.

Ending World Hunger or Boosting Agribusiness? Gates Foundation Launches Ceres2030

Ceres2030, a new initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, claims to seek sustainable solutions to world hunger, but is it just pushing the agribusiness agenda of chemicals and GMOs?

9 Things You Need to Know About Food and Climate Change

Did you know that livestock production has a larger impact on climate change than all transportation impacts combined? Our food choices can significantly reduce greenhouse gas impacts.

Tips and Recipes for Growing and Eating Kale

Since around 2012 kale has been increasing in popularity amongst consumers. Kale yeah! Now you can learn how to plant, grow, harvest, and cook your very own kale.

The Honey Bee: The Most Important ‘Pest’ in the World

Beekeepers in the United States have been losing approximately 30% of their colonies every year since 2006, a trend known as Colony Collapse Disorder.

Interview with Director & Producer of “HOPE What You Eat Matters” – Watch the Film for Free

HOPE What You Eat Matters is an award-winning film uncovering and revealing the effects of our typical Western diet on our health, the environment and animals.

Vegan Fairy Tale: A Rancher’s Wife & Her Voice for the Voiceless

The journey of a rancher’s wife gone vegan. They almost divorced over her inability to withstand his way of life, now they operate the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Texas.

GMO Dangers: Facts You Need to Know

A plant biologist explains how GMOs now constitute a major part of the US food supply. They are especially common in processed foods and are fed to animals. How safe are they?

USDA Adds to Your Confusion About What to Eat

Dietary Guideline reports are controlled by the USDA, which aids industries that produce disease causing foods.

America the Beautiful: Swimming in the Slurry

In the United States, we recently had one of the worst droughts in history.

Impact of Food Choices on the Environment

Renowned Cornell Biological Oceanography and CNS lecturer explains why we need to take "ownership" of our oceans.

Food Lessons from the Dominican Republic

As Rural To Urban Migration Increases And Farmland Goes To Livestock, Global Roots Restores The Land, Builds A Sustainable Community & Reclaims Our Health!

Fifty Shades of Green

The canary in our food-supply mine is dead. Unnoticed but catastrophic changes endanger the Earth's ability to feed our species.

A World Without Fish: The Link Between Personal Action and the Environment

Last year I received my Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition through Dr. T. Colin Campbell's online course at eCornell.

Protecting the Planet with Your Fork

Here at the Center for Nutrition Studies, we are focused on nutrition and health. But what we choose to do for our own nutrition and health has a dramatic effect on the health of the planet…

Grass-Fed Animal Agriculture

(In response to a reader's question concerning Dr. Mercola's views on The China Study)

A Health Disaster in the Making

In 2002, the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released their most recent recommended nutrient intakes. Since 1943, the FNB has been telling us how much of each nutrient to consume,…

Solving Food Pyramid Mysteries

It's been our goal since the beginning to cut through the glut of available nutrition information and to give you just the pure, unadulterated basics so you can make healthful dietary change.

Chemical Carcinogens: How Safe Are You?

I would like to turn your attention toward a nagging question about foods, namely carcinogens in foods. We hear so much about them but what, really, are they? Mainly we've heard that carcinogens cause cancer and anticarcinogens prevent cancer.

The Protein Puzzle: Picking up the Pieces

There's a common myth among both scientists and non-scientists that people of underdeveloped countries are small simply because they don't eat enough meat. If they ate more meat, they would be big and strong like us. But this is not what we found from our China Project research.