How is it any people cannot put themselves in that place with imagining? Even animals could identify with what would not be desirable. Humans should have the sensibility to know they would not want what the animals being used are put through, we can likewise choose to not have anything to do with that, and we can already find out ourselves that there are ways to be very healthy this way without products from animals. And the same amount of use of resources for it and contribution to damage to environments with loss of species does not need to be continued then. https://healthyaging.emory.edu/could-eating-30-plants-a-week-be-the-answer-to-better-health/
Giving money to factory farms by buying their products is not a choice like picking a flavour of ice cream though. It has victims that suffer immensely under the conditions.
If someone beat up their dog every day and someone criticized them for it, you probably wouldn’t say that they shouldn’t “vilify” the animal abuser and that any attempt to help the victim is just “claiming moral high ground over a choice”, I assume?
Like I get that the intention isn’t to be cruel when people buy meat, but it does involve very serious animal abuse. That sadly doesn’t go away just by looking the other way.