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


It's the first European country to approve cultured meat for sale.

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.” While cultivated meat products have been approved for human consumption in Singapore, Israel, and most of the US, the industry has been hindered by scaling issues and political scrutiny.

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