
The Nutritional Challenges of Cell-Cultured Meat for Pet Food
Introduction Growing meat in a lab for pet food from
animal stem cells has many potential benefits including avoidance of legumes or
animal by-products as sources of protein and providing a sustainable production
of meat for cats and dogs. However, could this production of cell-cultured meat
(also known as lab-grown meat and in vitro meat) provide meat for pets that is nutritionally sustainable? Nutritional
sustainability is “the ability of a food system to provide sufficient