It's only devastating when it's a giant multinational. Local ranchers can raise animals in a very green fashion that is actually beneficial to the ecology. And, people(along with most other animals) have been eating meat literally forever. Before we dragged ourselves out of the oceans with flippers, we were eating meat. Yes, fish is meat.

Monsanto engineered crops that don't produce seeds so that farmers would have to continue buying from them. I already mentioned the mosquitos that deliver vaccines (which is unethical). Undercutting ranchers so that it's impossible for them to turn a profit, which can have broader economic impacts on certain communities. Creating a proprietary(black box) process for growing this meat that may end up being carcinogenic/dangerous. A concentration of the meat production that give faceless corporations more leverage over the general population. Producing meat with hormone ratios that are different(either knowingly or inadvertently) from what humans have grown accustomed to, causing unexpected health issues. It'll require legislation that bureaucrats will for sure get wrong causing even more issues, or worse, some ideologue will engineer based on their beliefs. Imagine someone deciding we need to decrease the amount of testosterone in red meat, or add estrogen to chickens, or put dopamine in pork, or some other crazy shit. I'm not saying it should be illegal, but I won't support it. I won't buy it, and I won't eat at restaurants that serve it.

Plus, something about it just seems wrong.

I support local farmers. I like that I'm able to go see the conditions that the animal was raised in. I don't trust that there won't be some unintended consequences, whether it's with the meat itself, or socially. I don't like the idea of relying on what will more than likely be a giant conglomerate controlling the supply(it's already bad enough with real meat). It's putting more and more control in fewer and fewer hands. Not to mention the fact that they will start making further modifications based on some sort of ideology/"social good". They modified mosquitos to deliver vaccines. I'd go hunting before I'd eat something grown in a lab.

Am I the only one that won't be eating lab grown meat?