I'll pass on the obvious comment about meat originating in styrofoam plastic-wrapped supermarket containers... Here we have a truly classic problem. The author thinks of firearms in terms of symbology - they are not "symbols," but objects. What an object symbolizes is entirely up to the individual's point of view, and many liberals think this a complete description of reality. It isn't. There isn't a more perfect example of hard, cold reality than a .45 pointed your direction. You can close your eyes and pretend it'll go away or think of it in terms of fuzzy bunnies or any other symbology you want to put onto it, and it remains a .45 pointed your direction. I think the author is beginning, but only beginning, to realize this.
"If God hadn't intended for man to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat."