I wonder what the left’s reaction to this will be -
because it’s never about what they complain about on the surface (cruel to animals, takes too much land, etc),
they really don’t want people to indulge in meat eating.
Right you are. It isn’t even that they don’t want people to indulge in eating meat, it’s that they want to be able to prohibit people from eating meat. Or, for that matter, anything else that strikes their fancy.