I'm not nearly as disconnected from food and agriculture most in the us because one of my aunts had a small farm and raised ducks and chickens for food when I was a child, and my wife grew up on a sheep farm and then we moved to her hometown. But I've still never seen a livestock animal killed in person.

The strangest thing about this disconnect to me is the bizarrely widespread denial among dog- and cat-owning Americans of the pets' predatory nature. People construct their pets as good and nice, and killing animals as something good and nice individuals don't do, so even though they feed themselves and their pets meat, they're shocked at the reality of pets killing prey, even just, for example, hearing that my cat catches bugs and saying something "Gross!" I knew a husky owner who maintained the dog had killed multiple cats (who broke into his enclosured yard) 'by accident', 'just playing'.