I think this is like the Japanese totally not realizing that katsuobushi is fish. If they would say butaniku, they would realize that it's meat, but because they say hamu, it has become totally dissociated in their minds from what it really is.
I guess so, but I still think that's sad. I mean...why is it so hard to think about what something is? I guess it's like reading the ingredients on the back of the box--I've just been doing it so long that I don't even think about it, but most people don't think to do it.

Then she went on to point out how several times more grain goes into raising meat animals than the meat that is gotten from them, and that if people ate less meat there would be more food to go around.
Yay for her!