Once the children have been commodified, Swift's rhetoric can easily turn "people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound".
wˈʌns ðə tʃˈɪldɹən hɐvbɪn kəmˈɑːdᵻfˌaɪd, swˈɪfts ɹˈɛɾɚɹˌɪk kæn ˈiːzili tˈɜːn "pˈiːpəl ˌɪntʊ ˈænɪməlz, ðˈɛn mˈiːt, ænd fɹʌm mˈiːt, lˈɑːdʒɪkli, ˌɪntʊ tˈʌnɪdʒ wˈɜːθ ɐ pɹˈaɪs pɜː pˈaʊnd".