Post by Odysseus on Jun 29, 2024 4:40:45 GMT
Meatly, the London-based startup, has created cruelty-free, faux-chicken cat food grown from a single fertilized egg. It will be available to buy first at Pets at Home stores in the U.K. later this summer as part of their sustainable initiative.
Talking from his bijou North London garden with his cats buzzing around him, Owen Ensor, the co-founder and chief executive, said, “It’s very exciting to see the first ever cans of cultivated pet food fly off the production line. We have a R&D partnership with a large pet-food manufacturer in America and are currently going through the regulatory hurdles. The model we have in the U.K. with a retailer and manufacturer relationships works well, so ideally we’ll try to replicate that with someone like PetSmart and Petco.”
Meatly’s 150g (5oz) tins of cultivated-chicken cat food will cost roughly £1 ($1.25). Cultivated meat, also known as cell-based or clean meat, is produced by culturing animal cells in a giant stainless-steel tanks, much like brewing beer. The company’s scientists extracted “a sample of cells from a single chicken egg” and grow them into a product that is biologically indistinguishable from the flesh of a slaughtered bird. It is also free of hormones, steroids and antibiotics—all things commonly found in meat, organic or otherwise. ...
Talking from his bijou North London garden with his cats buzzing around him, Owen Ensor, the co-founder and chief executive, said, “It’s very exciting to see the first ever cans of cultivated pet food fly off the production line. We have a R&D partnership with a large pet-food manufacturer in America and are currently going through the regulatory hurdles. The model we have in the U.K. with a retailer and manufacturer relationships works well, so ideally we’ll try to replicate that with someone like PetSmart and Petco.”
Meatly’s 150g (5oz) tins of cultivated-chicken cat food will cost roughly £1 ($1.25). Cultivated meat, also known as cell-based or clean meat, is produced by culturing animal cells in a giant stainless-steel tanks, much like brewing beer. The company’s scientists extracted “a sample of cells from a single chicken egg” and grow them into a product that is biologically indistinguishable from the flesh of a slaughtered bird. It is also free of hormones, steroids and antibiotics—all things commonly found in meat, organic or otherwise. ...
