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With lab grown meat we could see the advent of ethical cannibalism.
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In Arthur C Clark's 1964 short story "Food of the Gods" a synthetic- meat company came out with a very tasty and great-selling product. Turns out it's cultured human tissue.
There's also the film Soylent Green (1973), though that isn't lab-grown human tissue