The white supremacists are willing idiots. I don't doubt they were leveraged to inflame race relations, same way Russia took advantage of the BLM movement to create division.
If lab-grown meat becomes even half as good (and cheap) as slaughtered meat then I'd make the switch in a heartbeat. Not to mention, imagine being able to try out all sorts of exotic meats guilt-free, or being able to eat raw meat without risk of food-borne illness and parasites? Gimme some of that cruelty-free giant tortoise meat, lemme see what that gluttonous bitch Charles Darwin was on about.
Why the fuck do they have lawns in the first place? You live in as close to a desert as Canada has, lay out some gravel, throw a cactus or two in, and call it a day.
It's also full of very influential Jews. While the evangelicals are certainly one major driving force, let's not underestimate the intra-group pressure that Jews in the west apply to one another to conform.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_Black_Lives_Matter
Edit: just in case it needs to be explained, any infighting amongst their enemies is advantageous to Russia.