I appreciate you’re engaging with the question and I’d urge you to keep going. Here’s a thought experiment: imagine if the only other animals in the planet were other primates, maybe even just Neanderthals. Maybe we are them in the past, maybe some people still do today. Maybe they’re even farmed. Trapped and milked, or fed and butchered. But it’s all far away from the city, so you don’t even have to think about it, you just go to the back of the store and get your meat or your cheese. But they are actually people. Not like you and me, sure, but they undeniably have a conscious experience of the world very very similar to ours. You don’t actually need to eat their body parts or their milk. You can survive just fine without them, it just takes some effort, and most people don’t bother. Would it still be morally irrelevant whether you ate that meat or not?