Guardian

UK first European country to approve lab-grown meat, starting with pet food

Verge

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

First country approves artificial meat for pets – FT

The UK's Animal and Plant Health Agency and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have signed off on pet food made from lab-grown meat made by the company Meatly. It's the first European country to do so.

The first lab-grown food is expected to hit store shelves near the end of the year after taste tests are conducted with dogs. The first of its products, which are made from animal cells, will be Meatly's cultivated chicken.

The Telegraph

This comes as a recent UK poll has shown 50% of pet owners willing to feed lab-grown meat to their animals and 32% saying they'd eat it themselves.

Lab-grown meat is real meat, but it's made by infusing nutrients into animal cells that divide and grow in a lab before they're mixed with vegetable protein, molded, and cooked.

BBC News

Meatly says its products are aimed at combatting "huge ethical and sustainability challenges," such as global warming. There are competing studies showing both cultivated meat and natural animal meat with higher or lower environmental impacts.

The move comes as other countries, even those that have approved lab-grown meat for human consumption, face debates over its impact on the farming industry. US states like Alabama and Florida have banned it to protect livestock farmers.

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