my stance was never that meat eating is Immoral,

you've said clearly it's less moral.

ethics is generally presented with a scale that has three stops: moral duty (something you must do), amoral (something it doesn't matter if you do), and immoral (something you shouldn't do). if eating meat is less moral than not eating meat, the only way it's possible for it to be less moral without being immoral is if eating plants is a moral duty, and no one believes that. it's not like chewing a tomato is a good thing in and of itself like saving a drowning kid would be.

here's what i think: you have no formal training in ethics as a branch of philosophy, so you are using terms with which you have some familiarity, but you are playing fast-and-loose with terms that have specific meanings.

you may actually not believe eating meat is immoral, but if that's the case then it isn't consistent to believe eating meat is less moral than not eating meat.