Cultured meat dates back a mere six years. In 2013, Mark Post and his team from Maastricht University in the Netherlands created a hamburger made entirely from stems cells extracted from animal tissue. Alexa Potocki at Alltech discusses how this new form of protein production has received an incredible amount of funding from the very sector that some would say should most feel threatened by it: agriculture.
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