I think this is potentially a really important use for alternative proteins. While plant-based pet food has been around for some time, it hasn’t quite caught on, and I don’t want to wade into the debate around whether cats can thrive on protein from plants. This is why cultivated meat in particular might be really valuable here. It also makes intuitive sense that people might be willing to feed cultivated meat to other animals, even if they have concerns about eating it themselves, and that this might eventually help to normalize cultivated meat in general.
That being said, I couldn’t find any good research or evidence of success in this area, which is why I didn’t delve into it here. It seems like a promising area for research, and now that there is a limited amount of cultivated meat on sale as dog food in the UK perhaps we will start to get some data.
I think this is potentially a really important use for alternative proteins. While plant-based pet food has been around for some time, it hasn’t quite caught on, and I don’t want to wade into the debate around whether cats can thrive on protein from plants. This is why cultivated meat in particular might be really valuable here. It also makes intuitive sense that people might be willing to feed cultivated meat to other animals, even if they have concerns about eating it themselves, and that this might eventually help to normalize cultivated meat in general.
That being said, I couldn’t find any good research or evidence of success in this area, which is why I didn’t delve into it here. It seems like a promising area for research, and now that there is a limited amount of cultivated meat on sale as dog food in the UK perhaps we will start to get some data.