{"id":3640,"date":"2025-02-06T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/lab-grown-meat-treats-for-dogs-hit-uk-shelves\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:02:28","slug":"lab-grown-meat-treats-for-dogs-hit-uk-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/lab-grown-meat-treats-for-dogs-hit-uk-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown meat treats for dogs hit UK shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cultivated chicken dog treats have gone on sale at a U.K. pet food retailer, Pets at Home. The retailer is also a significant investor in <a href=\"https:\/\/meatly.pet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Meatly<\/a>, the company behind the meat ingredient used in dog food brand The Pack&#8217;s Chick Bites. These slaughter-free, low-carbon treats are made with plant-based ingredients and are billed as a sustainable option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meatly is claiming a world first for retailing cultivated meat for pet food, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/feb\/06\/uk-pets-at-home-world-first-lab-grown-meat-dog-treats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Guardian<\/a>. The company received regulatory clearance for the use of cultivated meat in pet food last summer, marking a European first. Chick Bites are Meatly&#8217;s first commercialization of its cultivated meat, which is grown in bioreactors using cells from a single chicken egg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although this first dog treat is a &#8220;limited release,&#8221; indicating that production capacity is still limited, <a href=\"https:\/\/meatly.pet\/meatly-launches-worlds-first-cultivated-pet-food\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Meatly stated<\/a> that its next steps will focus on scaling up production and making the products more widely available to consumers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/06\/first-lab-grown-meat-treats-go-on-sale-in-the-uk-for-dogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultivated chicken dog treats have gone on sale at a U.K. pet food retailer, Pets at Home. The retailer is also a significant investor in Meatly, the company behind the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[928,270,929,930],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-cultivated-meat","tag-in-brief","tag-lab-grown-meat","tag-meatly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-06-at-11.07.21.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}