The Environment Department (Defra) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha) gave regulatory clearance to start-up Meatly to sell its cultivated chicken pet food, the company said.

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Several studies into the climate impact of pet food have been published in recent years and researchers have also found potential demand for lab-grown meat products.

Owen Ensor, Meatly’s chief executive said: ‘We are proving that there is a safe and low-capital way to rapidly bring cultivated meat to market.

The Food Standards Agency and green campaigners urged ministers to back controversial plans for speeding up the approval for ‘regulated food products’.

But other experts and activists have warned that evidence around the sustainability of lab-grown meat is limited and alternative proteins could represent a new phase of food system industrialisation, which undermines resilience and jeopardises food producers’ livelihoods.

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