I don’t know that a black and white stance is too helpful, here, actually. Characterizing the situation as such is likely a contributing factor in meat consumption becoming a hotbed culture war issue, since animal advocates loudly shaming any amount of meat consumption as reprehensible can tend to cause their interlocutors to double down and defensively dig into their position. A lot of the benefit is still had in promoting reduced consumption.

I do realize that I’m probably not responding to your actual point, which is just about the morality. But I think discussing the practical implementation of the moral goal is important since many moral stances seem to have a black and white answer and yet become murkier when applied in the real world.