Theft vs. Cheeseburgers

The statement was made that stealing is as bad or worse than eating a cheeseburger, and as bad as eating on Yom Kippur. We will briefly analyze this from three perspectives: halachic, meta-halachic, and does-this-make-any-sense-at-all-to-be-saying.

• Halachic | Theft is a Torah prohibition. Eating a cheeseburger entails the prohibition against eating meat that was not slaughtered in accordance with halacha, a Torah prohibition. It also involves eating blood, since the meat was not salted to remove blood; this is a capital offense (I guess, if you consider Karet, spiritual death, to be a capital offense). However, there are opinions that cooked blood is a rabbinic prohibition, and also, perhaps the blood was broiled out of the burger, the way we kasher liver, for example. Finally, eating milk and meat cooked together is a Torah prohibition (most opinions say it applies to non-kosher beef as well as kosher), so if the cheese is melted onto the meat, this Torah prohibition is violated. So it seems that eating a cheeseburger is either as bad as, or worse than theft, depending on the blood issue. With respect to Yom Kippur, well, eating on Yom Kippur is a capital offense (karet), so eating on Yom Kippur is worse than theft.
• Meta-halachic | Could be that theft would rise to the level of a chillul hashem, depending on the circumstances (OK, maybe that's more halachic than meta-halachic). This would make it much worse than cheeseburgers or Yom Kippur. Further, with theft, you're sinning against both man and God.
• Does-this-make-any-sense-at-all-to-be-saying | Of course not. The message we were given was, "don't think that only kashrut and Yom Kippur are God's law; theft is, too." Now, that's true, but the converse is also true--"don't think that only being good to other people is God's law, but so is keeping kosher and shabbat and all the other commandments." Who is he preaching to? Which message is lacking among 95% of American Jews, and among probably the majority of the Roslyn Synagogue? Most American Jews, including those who live in Roslyn, are honest, and don't need to be told that the Torah prohibits theft. But most American Jews are eating treif and violating the shabbat. So they don't need to be taught that the Torah prohibits theft, they already know that. They need to be taught that it's (for all intents and purposes) just as bad to eat a cheeseburger as it is to steal. Does the rabbi have any idea who his audience is? Or is he lashing out at some unseen right-wing bogeyman, getting all defensive against the chareidim who uphold Torah, so he's got to find some way to criticize them? (Assuming that chareidim are more likely to be crooks than non-religious Jews, which seems to border on anti-Semitism.) Or does he like to say whatever will make the Beth Sholom-niks feel at home--telling them they're ahead of the game because they don't steal, and we'll put off a discussion on the importance of the whole rest of the Torah to an undetermined later date?