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,

British dogs and cats are set to become the first animals in Europe to chow down on meat cultivated from chicken cells.

The UK has become the first European country to approve putting lab-grown meat in pet food. Regulators cleared the use of chicken cultivated from animal cells, which lab meat company Meatly is planning to sell to manufacturers.

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.

The UK has become the first European country to approve sales of lab-grown meat after regulators gave the green light to pet food start-up Meatly to produce cultivated chicken from animal cells. Meatly’s CEO and co-founder Owen Sensor said the decision signaled the UK’s intention to become a market leader,