I always feel bad when I'm cooking meat thinking this is a chunk taken out of something that was alive, that it's a little scary how easily the knife goes through it, and if it was still living tissue me putting salt and frying it would probably hurt like hell... but at the same time I crave beef jerky at 3 in the morning because meat is the only thing that fits the "chewy and savory" craving.
With regard to vegans in general, first of all, if they didn't push it on people no one would have a problem. But it has to be a sociopolitical thing to them. Second of all, my go to question for them is "why do you think we as a species learned how to cook?" I want to ask the same thing about why we started making fires but that's a tiny bit debatable-- too debatable for me to want to give to people who like to argue.
And then vegans who try to push it on their animals. I get not wanting to support industries that are killing animals, but at the same time your pets don't, so if your best interest is the animal's best interest then you should either give them what they need or not have the animal at all, if you don't want to be the middleman.