Sustainable Dog and Cat Food

Pet Food Ingredients
Cultivated wagyu beef gains UK pet food approval
Ivy Farm Technologies can now supply its cultivated wagyu beef to U.K. pet food brands, with its first commercial-scale production run expected to be completed in early 2027.
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Pet Food Ingredients
Meatly relocates ahead of 2027 cultivated meat production
Cultivated meat producer has moved to Imperial College London's Grapht Works facility as it prepares to scale manufacturing for the pet food market.
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Pet Food Ingredients
Novel, but endangered, Japanese eel in cat food improved coat quality, antioxidants
Cats eating diets containing Japanese eel improved several measures of coat condition and antioxidant capacity. However, scientists classify the species as Endangered.
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Sustainable Dog and Cat Food
Royal Canin, Roquette co-invest in regenerative wheat farms
The partnership with Soil Capital supports more than 60 farms in France and allows each company to count verified farm-level outcomes toward its own Scope 3 emissions reporting.
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Pet Food Ingredients
Scoular, Giorgi bring mushroom ingredients to pet food
Scoular’s annual sustainability report also shows its regenerative wheat program with Grupo Trimex has grown to 35,000 acres.
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Pet Food News
Pet Sustainability Coalition names Heather Pfahl as CEO
Pfahl, who previously led sustainability teams at Mars, Starbucks and Microsoft, will start her new role Nov. 2.
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Pet Food Ingredients
Volare opens insect protein plant in Finland
The Finnish technology company has completed its first industrial-scale facility, which converts food-industry side streams into insect protein and oil for pet food, aquafeed and poultry feed.
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Product Launches
HenArt launches Levendo dog food with Enifer mycoprotein
The baked, complete food for adult and senior dogs marks the first international consumer launch for Enifer’s Pekilo fermented mycoprotein ingredient.
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Market Trends and Reports
Report: Plant-based pet food market to reach $34.1B
Growth Market Reports projects the global plant-based pet food market will grow at a 9.4% compound annual rate from 2026 to 2034.
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Production
Algiecel scales microalgae fish oil alternative for pet food
Danish ingredient supplier’s new Kalundborg facility increases its microalgae production capacity nearly fivefold as global fish oil supply tightens.
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Pet Food Packaging
Today’s pet food packaging: adaptable, sustainable, convenient
The industry and consumers are both demanding packaging meet more needs than ever before.
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Dog and Cat Food Nutrition
Faba bean protein offers blood plasma replacement options in wet pet food
Full plasma replacement maintained measured texture properties in the tested pâtés, while chunks in gravy required a more limited substitution to preserve firmness.
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