Meat requires us to kill animals. Factory farmed animals are in a considerable amount of pain for most of their life.
Animals living in the wild are in a considerable amount of pain when they starve to death, freeze to death, are chased by predators, and are eaten by predators in many cases while they are still alive.
I'm not holding your arguments invalid. Indeed, they are valid arguments to be made. However, they are not without their counter-arguments.
Another problem not yet addressed is what to do with the excess domesticated animals in the theoretical case when meat eating dropped significantly. What to do with their species in the theoretical case meat eating disappeared? (Not that these are any strong arguments in favor of eating meat, but might be strong arguments against banning eating meat)
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No role in natural ecosystems? Large herbivores certainly do, unless you would rather the woods and shrubbery cover vast expanses which are now grazed into meadowhood - but that would likely have lots of negative consequences, including wildlife loss from edge habitats (and even from quite transformed ones).
Now, chickens are different...
I am in favour of continuing to farm animals on places where you can't grow crops, simply because i value humans higjer than animals and this increases overall food supply. But today we are talking mainly about animals that are feedet with plants. If the grassland cant be used to grow eatable plants it can stay grassland and have cows on it.