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If it doesn't make it any less sleazy, then why do it at all?
Because it's like the difference between calling baby cow flesh "veal" and calling it... well... baby cow flesh. Or marketing hot dogs as actual meat and not mechanically-compressed chicken anuses. The masses are too dumb to read what the product contains, and those who do would rather eat something that's at least aesthetically pleasing. Simply put, it makes it more marketable and more eatable!
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I think you misunderstand me, given that you're pretty much explaining my point.
I meant 'sleazy' with respect to us as viewers/gameplayers. We should be horrified that the Glukkons are prepared to chop up sentient beings regardless of how they're marketed. However, it makes more sense that on Oddworld, they use the cartoony imagery to hide from their consumers the horror of what they're doing.
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I would agree with this in the grand scheme of things, but I thought that the head-on-a-stick design had far more of a dramatic effect in that opening scene and made it so explicit to Abe and to the player what the Glukkons were actually doing, which I thought was completely appropriate for establishing the mood of the game at this point where we know nothing about Oddworld.
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True, but that leads to a whole other gameplay reasons/in-universe argument.