2.600.000 years ago
Pre-humans have just started making stone tools and use them to eat scavenged meat.
2.000.000 years ago
Having no weapons, pre-humans begin hunting by ambushing wild animals
250.000 years ago
Pre-humans begin using fire to cook their meat.
8000 BCE
The pig is only the second species after the dog to be domesticated. Cattle and Poultry would soon follow.
7600 BCE
Extinction of the mammoth, the last of the giant land mammels to survive from the Pleistocene era, signals the end of easy hunting for pre-humans.
1700 BCE
The first ice house is built for preserving meat and other foods: a dome- shaped structure with a snow-covered floor.
1493
Christopher Columbus brings cattle to North America.
1860
The average US livestock farmer feeds 5 people.
1876
The first cattle feedlot is used in the US intead of a pasture. Hello modern factory farming!
1885
The first cell culture is created by Wilhelm Roulx. It survives for a few days.
1894
French chemist Pierre-Eugene-Marcellin Berthelot predicts lab-grown meat.
1914
First outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease occurs in the USA, a result of increasingly crowded farm conditions.
1916
The first fast food restaurant, White Castle, opens in Witchita, USA.
1931
Winston Churchill proclaims his support or the science of growing lab meat in an essay, and later in speeches.
1944
The word “vegan” is coined bij Donald Watson. Before this time, a vegan diet was referred to as “Pythagorean.”
1950s
Large numbers of American farmers begin to keep their animals indoors to increase production
1960
The avrege US livestock farmer feeds 25.8 people.
1976
Microcwave sales surpass gas range sales.
1982
First veggie burger created and marketed in the UK by Gregory Simms.
1988
Major mad cow disease outbreak, a result of the new practice of using animal remains in animal food.
1994
McDonalds sells its 100 billionth hamburger since 1948, and stops counting.
1995
US FDA approves the use of in-vitro techniques for commercial meat production.
1999
Willem van Eelen receives the first patent for in-vitro meat production techniques.
2003
Oron Catts and lonat Zurr sample their in-vitro steak. grown from skeletal frog cells.
2005
The average US livestock farmer feeds 155 people.
2013
Mark Post presents the first lab-grown hamburger resulting from his research. It is sampled in front of an audience in London.
