it'll definitely be a lot of tedious reaction planning, but the output of ground meat should be equal to the sum of meat and erroneous biological tissue. I imagined that the bones would just be ground in with everything else to make a high-calcium food, and it wouldn't make a distinction or separating mechanic. it's a bloody grinder, man. The blood I actually understand, though. That brings the question to mind; can you even eat bone meal in this version, like if it was one of the results of your reaction?
Well, the bone meal was just an idea for extra utility. I suppose the grinder could be used to grind bones, too. I'm doubtful that bone meal (as it exists in the game) has become edible in this version, but it wouldn't be hard to define a new bone meal item that would be based on the type of creature used (so cow bone meal could be made from ground cow bones, etc), and make that inedible until cooked (like sugar).
In any case, I think I am going to make a thread in the modding section to further explore dwarven cuisine.
I was about to suggest in the Suggestions forum that all food, or most of it, should be cooked or prepared before being consumed by the dwarves. Why fish must be prepared and meat don't? Why plants aren't prepared? We eat very few raw or unprepared foods in real world, and most of them are fruits. Even wheat always had to be baked into bread.
This would add to the challenge of the game and would make impossible for forts to rely only on caravans for their food. It's too easy just to buy all the foodstuff in caravans and never worry about food, and with this change they would sell only raw food.
I know this can be changed in the raws, but I think it would make the game more interesting and internally consistent if Toady himself make the change.
I hope I made myself clear, dabbling English writer here 
I actually agree with you, especially about meat. When I started playing this game, I initially believed the meat you got from butchering was inedible until cooked and was surprised to find out otherwise. For the plants, many of their products already need to be processed & cooked to be eaten (sugar, quarry leaves, cave wheat), so the game is pretty good in that respect. I do think meat products should require cooking, but I think it's okay to let dwarves eat fruit right off the tree or bush.
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