Eating an animal means killing a sapient being for your own pleasure. You don't need it for sustenance. It's objectively worse for that end both on an efficiency scale (trophic levels from sun -> plant -> herbivore -> you) and health scale.
People might get offended by the comparison but it's not my job to hold the hands of people offended by rhetoric. I thought facts don't care about feelings? Extreme is subjective. I view daily murder as pretty extreme but we consider that fine as long as the life being taken is non-human. Want to go wring a chicken's neck in your backyard and eat it? Totally normal and rustic.
Tell people that is gross? Extremist demonstrably false vegan agenda