Rational compassion being perhaps a distinctively human trait, needless animal slaughter and suffering is far more ruinous to my humanity.
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.
Yeah, you are partially right, but you still have the option to keep and raise animals.. That's freedom. When the artificial meat starts to take over it will be the death knell of the livestock industry and part of your freedom.
Eternal dependence, and applauding the way they destroy your humanity down to the very last cell. Go on, applaud it.