Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

The remark pushes back against the sanitized consumer experience of buying meat and insists on confronting the realities of animal agriculture. Child frames meat production as driven by economic efficiency (“most economical way possible”) while also asserting that conscientious producers aim for humane treatment—an attempt to reconcile culinary pleasure with ethical responsibility. The final sentence underscores a moral and practical point: eating meat entails participation in killing and processing animals, even if modern packaging obscures that fact. Implicitly, she urges informed consumption—knowing where food comes from, how it is produced, and what trade-offs (cost, welfare, scale) are involved.