This is fair. You are right. I am not claiming that my way of eating is ethical as it stands at all. I am in the camp of wanting lab grown meat to be widely available and cheap. That is ethical if done right. I already eat meat substitutes, but my finances are not great and sometimes it's hard to beat the cost effectiveness/nutritional value of regular ground beef or eggs and bacon. In those cases I at least try to buy the least tortured meat I can afford, if you get what I am saying. I do appreciate that there are empathetic people like you in the world.

This is the attitude that makes people turn away and ignore the entire issue. The fact of the matter is that people don't care about animals and they think this viewpoint is absurd. You have to give them arguments that are self-serving, because they will never equate "ethical meat" with "ethical murder".