Definitely makes sense, and as a mom, your first 'why?' did make me think a bit. Always a good thing.

I do make sure my kids know where food comes from. I want them to be conscious of things like factory farming and how animals are treated on their way to slaughter, etc. Some of them won't eat beef unless it is local.

I was thinking as I fed and cleaned stalls this morning about this issue and why I don't want to talk about the bunny being eaten by the snake with them. I think it is this: both daughters see our animals as friends and equals. They don't differentiate a lot between the value of a human life and their animal's lives. So, to them, it is fairly abhorrent to treat their pet's bodies with disrespect after death, just as it would be for us to treat a human's body with disrespect after death. Eventually, I think, their perspective will change a little.