If that was the case why wouldn’t corporations do this for everything they produce?
They do it for medicine.
But we don’t require meat at all to survive…How exactly are you going to curb demand for regular meat if lab meat is priced at extortion level pricing.
Inserting ideology it's usually enough. Stupid legislation removing rights for religious reasons has been ridiculously easy to pass recently in many countries. Create a stupid enough ideological reason and any idea can be voted for the populace.
Pharmacology is just specific enough that changing a product significantly enough to avoid a patent violation will also make the drug ineffectual.
For that you need science. My country just elected a president who's vowed to destroy public education, to eliminate all subsidies for scientific investigation and reducing the state to the minimal expression. That's enough to have drugs only manufactured by companies who can name whatever price they like for their medications.
Pretty much everything you claimed is only somewhat pertinent to the pharmaceutical industry, and only because of the extreme cost of entry due to the necessary regulation.
There is life outside the US, you know.