The Strange Culture that Led to Cultured Meat For 40 years or more, a debate has been waged about the impact that the animal rights movement has had on the livestock and meat industry. It would have been almost unthinkable back in 1980, the year People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was founded, that cultural trends and technology development would lead to a point where the attributes of meat that make it so delicious to so many could be produced without the actual propagation of animals that have to be born, raised, fed and slaughtered, which makes so many unfamiliar with the process squeamish. Today’s culture of sustainability, animal welfare and general consumer concern for where food comes from is, in fact, changing...