Eating meat is not a trivial pleasure
Food is not trivial, and nobody is asking anyone to stop eating. The real question is how much difference meat makes compared with the plant-based meal you could have instead. For most people that difference comes down to preference, and the animal pays with its life.
Meat isn't a sweet I could skip without noticing. It sits at the centre of how I eat, how my family cooks, how we celebrate and what keeps me full and well. Calling that a trivial pleasure dismisses something that matters a great deal in people's lives, and a moral argument built on that word starts by misdescribing what it is asking people to give up.
The weight of meat in someone's life is real. But the comparison that matters is between a meal with meat and the meal that would replace it, not between meat and nothing.
Take the reasons meat seems important one at a time. Nutrition: protein, iron and the other nutrients people associate with meat are all available from plants, and B12 comes from a supplement. Health bodies accept well-planned vegan diets at every life stage. Culture and family: these meanings are genuine. They are attached to the meal and the occasion more than to the animal, and every cuisine already has plant dishes people grew up with. Satisfaction: meat tastes good to many people, and some find the switch hard at first. That difficulty is a real cost. It is also mostly about habit, and it fades.
What remains once those are accounted for is a preference for one taste and texture over another. That is not nothing. It is the kind of thing people give up for far smaller reasons, such as price, convenience or a doctor's advice.
On the other side is the animal. Welfare varies a great deal between farms, and better systems do reduce suffering. But on any farm, intensive or pasture-based, the animal is killed young, usually after separation and transport. That loss is total for the animal.
So calling meat trivial does not mean it is unimportant to you. It means the gap between it and the alternative is small next to what the animal loses. If the gap really is large for you, that is worth spelling out. Most of the time, when people try, what they describe is the value of food in general rather than what meat adds.