Source: Choudhury et al., The Business of Cultured Meat, Trends in Biotechnology (2020) via Statista
While the Dutch lay claim to the first cultivated meat destined for human consumption (see: "Dutch move toward sale of cultured meat"), companies have sprung up across the globe that are working on some segment of the cultivated meat supply chain. As of 2020, North America was in the lead as the geographic center of the business, with 40% of companies based there, while beef was (and still is) the most commonly cultivated type of…