The food chain of the animated universe

There's something I've noticed about the animal characters in children's cartoons. Pretty much any animal can be anthropomorphized to some degree, but the idea of animals as food is either ignored or handled in such a way that any food animal is carefully depicted as non-living or not having any kind of personality, for lack of a better word.

For example, the Berenstain Bears refer to eating salmon, although no fish is ever depicted, to my knowledge. The bears of Bear Country are the humans of their own world, owning non-talking cats and dogs as pets.

Likewise, the bears of Little Bear live peacefully with other talking animals, such as cats, snakes, ducks, owls and so on, but are shown occasionally catching, cooking and eating fish.

Timothy Goes to School depicts animals who are sometimes each other's enemies in the real world getting along as friends; aside from an episode in which Yoko the cat brought sushi to school, animals-as-food doesn't seem to come up. (I suppose it could have been vegetarian sushi.)

On the other hand, an informative non-fiction show such as Henry's Amazing Animals doesn't gloss over or disregard the issue of (real) animals eating other animals, presenting it as a fact of their real-world existence.