[awillen]

"For your hardcore fleshy, a bloody slab of meat is all that's going to satiate them, so it misses that market too."

I think you're really painting people who don't follow your thinking with a pretty aggressively negative stereotype here.

I love a good steak. The fact that it came from a cow is irrelevant to me - I like it for taste/texture/etc. If you can give me the exact same product from a lab, I'll 100% buy it (especially if it's cheaper). This is how most people are (and not just about meat) - they care about the end product they're consuming, not its origins or how it got to them (otherwise, y'know, we'd be thinking about where our iPhones came from and whatnot). Give them the identical product they have now that's better along some line that matters to them (like cost) and they'll happily switch.