It is true that cellular agriculture is an unnatural process

(At least, no more than .) The appeal of lab-grown animal products is not that they are from animals, but that they are overall better than current industrial meat products. Cultivating cells in a controlled system ensures decently healthy food that can be sufficient as an alternative. Small-scale operations have the potential to be more sustainable than concentrated animal farming operations, which use massive amounts of water to directly feed their dense populations of livestock with low-quality, water-intensive crops. Replacing these CAFOs eliminates the common unethical treatments that negate the health of the animals, leech antibiotics, nitrogen, phosphorus, growth hormones, and so on into the surrounding groundwater and ecosystem. Any animal that has their cells harvested does not need to suffer or die; they are normally subjected to a brief needle or tissue sample, which does not have to be taken from thousands of different bodies. So, while there is some damage done to animals in the lab-grown meat supply chain, this amount is cosmically less than the harm done in traditional meat agriculture. It is a matter of one animal to millions.