power is fungible. Nobody cares where their electricity comes from. Coal is failing because it is not price competitive. Food is not fungible, so I am not sure what point this is making.
Taste is not fungible, ingredients really are relatively changeable for most cooking.
When lab grown meet is cheap enough and tastes similar the market wouldn't even notice the change and real beef would become niche high end market for the customers who are ready to pay more because they believe it tastes better or it not GMO or Bill Gates injects 5G using artificial meat.
Corn is a fungible commodity.
Pork bellies are a fungible commodity.
It's a mystery to me as to why you think I said soybeans and steak are the same.
Fungible: Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility;
The entire premise was that coal is fungible because you can replace it with solar, and nobody* cares as long as their lights still turn on. You can't do the same with food, you can't replace beef with soy beans - in fact for most people you can't replace beef with anything, they want beef.
*coal miners care, the vast majority of the public does not
It's important to determine which of those two things you're discussing and trying to maintain parity with in attempts to improve on the infrastructure we have built, both have very different and unique problems.
There are many Americans in the Appalachian area of the United States that care more about where their power comes from than where their food comes from or contains. People in other parts of the world may have different priorities. But most households in West Virginia not only know what type of power is used to run their homes but know the name of the coal mine that it was dug out of.