In BriefPosted:2:18 AM PST February 6, 2025Image Credits:MeatlyFirst lab-grown meat treats go on sale in the UK for dogsCultivated chicken doggie snacks have gone on sale at a U.K. pet food retailer, Pets at Home. The retailer also happens to be a major investor in Meatly, the startup producing the meat ingredient contained in dog food brand The Packs Chick Bites, as the slaughter-free, low carbon treats are billed. (Other ingredients in the snacks are plant-based.)Meatly is claiming a world first for retailing cultivated meat for pet food, as the Guardian reports. The company gained regulatory clearance for the use-case last summer claiming a European first. Chick Bites are its first foray into commercializing Meatly Chicken, its name for the meat its growing in bioreactors, after a one-time harvest of cells from a single chicken egg. But it has big plans to scale up.While this first doggie snack is a limited release, suggesting production capacity is still capped, Meatly said its next steps will focus on scaling production and making products more widely available to consumers.Topics