I'm listening to: Brand New - Am I Wrong?

I have a somewhat unusual (but perfectly justified, as you will see) fascination with the meat-grinder. An animal creature enters on one end and a food item emerges on the other, yet they are one and the same in terms of their components being constant. What exactly has the meat-grinder taken from the creature, besides its external physical form, to drastically reduce its status from creature/being to object?

Sure, it looks different, especially when it's all dressed up in paper or a styrofoam box and cling wrapped, but it's still a chunk of a dead animal's corpse.

The meat-grinder also manifests psychologically and in more ways than one, to make unpleasant facts more palatable to ourselves. We simply relabel. This is why I don't like euphemisms when I'm talking to people whom I'm comfortable expressing myself somewhat freely with. It's unfortunate that they're a necessary evil in almost all other circumstances. I don't like them not because they make things sound better than they really are but that they are sometimes really misleading, and occasionally even mark manipulative intentions.

By the way, I'm not a vegetarian, but I do think we take too many things for granted because of our social conditioning.