It could turn into evil quite fast. Just imagine that average joes are forbidden to keep pigs, poultry and the like. Instead you have to buy a zillion dollar lab that creates artificial meat for you.... and pay license fees.
Don't threaten me with a good time!
Eternal dependence, and applauding the way they destroy your humanity down to the very last cell. Go on, applaud it.
Also the small farmers you are romanticizing hardly exist anymore precisely because of the returns to scale that lead large resource efficient factory farms to dominate.