That’s actually super hilarious given the conglomeration that has occurred already anyway.
Turns out you can just skip both the incredible engineering problem of lab grown meat and the incredible political problem of “banning meat” and even people who are apparently paranoid about corporate/government control will just go right along with it.
Yeah, that already happens in the current world with current corporations. You just don't notice because you're too busy consuming.
And I dont mean this in an angry environmentalist way. There are a lot of people who dont pay attention to their current food chain and don't know just how tightly most of the brands are controlled by a select group of companies.
So before jumping to future conspiracies, look at what you're in now:
1. Introduce artificial meat that only large corporations can make
2. Ban natural meat as artificial alternative exists
3. Jack up the prices and profit