sorry, PAA – my bad. guess I was reading too fast, and got the impression that the various halachic concerns only were being debated.
As to the issue – you are right, we don’t generally have to eat meat. But I think that the fact that there exists a chiyuv to eat meat at all (bzman habayis for sure)- even if its only several times a year – demonstrates that there is no such sensitivity. The chiyuv as simcha, after all – so you HAVE to celebrate yom-tov by killing an animal, since it makes you happy, but other times it would very lofty of you to refrain from such an act – doesn’t make sense to me.