Greener Living
Europe’s First Approved Lab-Grown Meat Is Actually for Pets
- UK startup Meatly gets approval to sell cultivated chicken
- Nascent sector has faced funding and scale-up challenges
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The UK will become the first country in Europe to sell cultivated meat after regulators cleared a local startup to produce cell-based chicken for pets.
With the regulatory approval in place, Meatly plans to start producing commercial samples of its pet food this year as it works on reducing costs and scaling production to reach industrial volumes in the next three years, it said in a statement Wednesday.