[4] Peace of Meat, co-founded by Eva Sommer, David Brandes and Dirk von Heinrichshorst,[3] stated in December 2019 that it intended to complete its proof of concept in 2020, to sell its first cultured cell mass in 2022, and to go to market in 2023.

[4] That month, the Foieture project received a research grant of almost 3.6 million euros from the Innovation and Enterprise Agency of the Flemish Government.

[3][7] Sommer commented that the COVID-19 pandemic has made people realise that 'many of the diseases of our time are caused by animals held for food production.

'[3] In September 2020, an acquisition agreement was reached by which Peace of Meat would become a subsidiary to the Israeli 3D bioprinting developer MeaTech after a gradual merger.

[1] In May 2021, MeaTech stated that it sought to establish and operate a full-scale pilot plant with 3D bioprinting technologies for cultured chicken fat production in Antwerp, Belgium in 2022.