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That appears in large amounts. from acute cheese which are particularly good at processing food. and if the amount of fermi cuties increases by just twenty percent the intestine absorbs about ten percent more calories from the food that passes through it ten percent may not sound like a lot but let's say it's two hundred fifty calories a day that adds up over the course of a year it could result in eight to nine kilos of additional weight no one killed. although that doesn't mean that we're at the mercy of our abdominal lodgers from acute bacteria thrive on fatty unhealthy fare quite fast food...

>> this is really good. and their beef -- >> this is chili. >> i would eat this chili. this is excellent. the biggest hurdle, converting carnivores, getting people to accept their plant-based product as matte. to do that, they're trying to win over consumers one taste at a time. stephanie strom is the food writer for "the new york times." good to see you. thanks for stopping by. >> thank you, craig. good to be here. >> how big a part of our food future are these plant-based foods? >> well, folks like ethan would tell you it's going to be a very big thing. right now it's teeny tiny. the market ...

Crazy about that. >> food writer michael poulan has coined the phrase, eat meat, not too much, but mostly plants. the fact that it was even noteworthy is what's noteworthy about it. it's a measure of how perplexed we've become about food as a result of what the food industry has done. what has the food industry done? >> well, i think michael is referring to processing food. a lot of the food we eat is very highly processed. but you know, the critics of these fake meats will tell you that -- >> it's also processed. >> they're also processed. >> very interesting. so you think that this is -- the...

>> didn't we talk at the beginning of the food about food stamps and people going hungry. there is attention there. i don't think you can say that food is too cheap. >> they're not mutually exclusive. we can do both. it's not as if there are two goals and they can't be reached mul simultaneously. >> you can certainly work on worker safety and sourcing and all this kind of stuff. but i don't think saying that food is too cheap is the right way. >> it is too cheap. >> but this is the constant challenge, right? this is the challenge of obesity being connected to poverty in this country. and that ...