The UK will start feeding lab-grown meat to pets this year

A screenshot taken from Meatly’s website showing a promotional can of lab-grown pet food.
Image: Meatly

The UK is now the first European country to green-light the sale of lab-grown meat, but with pets instead of human consumers as its first guinea pigs.

The UK’s Animal and Plant Health Agency and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs granted London-based startup Meatly regulatory approval to produce lab-grown pet food, which described the clearance as a “huge leap forward for the cultivated meat industry.”

“Pet parents are crying out for a better way to feed their cats and dogs meat,” Meatly CEO Owen Ensor said in a statement, pitching that the company’s cultivated pet food would allow them to do so “in a way that is kinder to our planet and other animals.”

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