With cultivated meat firms breaking ground on innovation facilities, partnering with meat-industry Titans and making remarkable advancements on salable product development, early 2022 has been huge for the industry. Is this the tipping point at which cultivated meat goes mainstream?
 
Alt-Meat Editor-in-chief Lisa M. Keefe snapped this photo of 3D printed steaks at MeaTech during a recent tour of its facility in Israel.
The explosion of plant-based meat alternatives at the grocery store is undeniable, but Good Food Institute's second pillar of the alternative meat sector — cultivated meat — hasn't broken through the public consciousness quite as readily.
Of course, cultivated meat hasn't been approved for sale anywhere but Singapore, but the sector's ability to scale production has also been a long-time problem for companies in the business.
Still, cultivated meat has slowly won over traditional…