A history of meat eating

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 burgerĀ 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.