WATCH: Will We Still Eat Meat In the Future?

On the heels of the World Health's Organization classifying bacon as a carcinogen and a push from public health officials to go meatless on Mondays, The Atlantic goes in depth with one company exploring meat replacing protein sources. 

Beyond Meat is a start up company seeking to create plant-based protein products that serve as meat replacements. Raising cattle for food has a huge impact on the environment. Beef is land and water-intensive, and is responsible for between 18 and 51 percent greenhouse gas emissions. 

In the below episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk, Atlantic reporter James Hamblin explores the growing industry of plant-based protein food production in California.