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Cultivated 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<\/a>, the startup producing the meat ingredient contained in dog food brand The Pack\u2019s Chick Bites, as the slaughter-free, low carbon treats are billed. (Other ingredients in the snacks are plant-based.)<\/p>\n Meatly is claiming a world first for retailing cultivated meat for pet food, as the Guardian<\/a> reports. The company gained regulatory clearance for the use-case last summer<\/a> \u2014 claiming a European first. Chick Bites are its first foray into commercializing Meatly Chicken, its name for the meat it\u2019s growing in bioreactors, after a one-time harvest of cells from a single chicken egg. But it has big plans to scale up.<\/p>\n While this first doggie snack is a \u201climited release,\u201d suggesting production capacity is still capped, Meatly said<\/a> its next steps will focus on scaling production and making products \u201cmore widely available to consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n