Share Dr Russ Tucker, 36, co-founder of Ivy, came from a family of butchers and told The Times his parents were not pleased when he suggested they eat a vegetarian meal once a week. He said: 'I was lucky not to be kicked out of the house.' Dr Tucker, nicknamed the 'hog father', added he wanted to follow his father and grandfather into the meat trade, 'albeit with a culture dish and not a cleaver'. The technique for growing meat in a lab was developed by Oxford University's Institute of Biomedical Engineering. How are lab-grown sausages made? The lab-grown sausages are made in three steps: