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>> reporter: hey, suzanne, almost since the west was settled, this has been a cross-roads of the great cattle and beef industry in this country. if you eat any kind of beef product this week, chances are good it came from within a couple hundred miles from where i'm standing right now, but this is also notable right now because it's one of the few places in the country where for all practical purposes there has not been a recession. how did they pull that off? well, it's an old west trick. take a look. 70,000 cattle are processed in dodge city every week. beef and farming are mainstays of the ...

So in typical silicon valley fashion, he rounded up the smartest scientists he knew and set out to disrupt big meat. >> this is what we call a bench scale fermenter. >> reporter: including john, who once studied vampire bats. >> we basically took the beef product. we deconstructed it. found out what made it beefy. >> reporter: what makes beef beefy is called heme short for hemoglobin. but what we associate with animal blood is also created by all kinds of plants, and it is the secret sauce at impossible foods. >> going to do a classic paddy melt. we are going to show you some meatballs for the...