This just doesn’t line up with the reality I see. I just went grocery shopping yesterday (at a bog-standard suburban grocer), and the meat section was like 20x

This just doesn’t line up with the reality I see. I just went grocery shopping yesterday (at a bog-standard suburban grocer), and the meat section was like 20x bigger than the tofu/alternatives section. Same at Costco - they’ve got like 4-5 tofu/alternative products in total, and multiple aisles full of meat products. (And Costco doesn’t cary things that “nobody is buying”.)