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• v  make fat or plump
• s  (of market animals) made ready for market

• They're shifted after a few months to the tight quarters of an industrial feedlot, to be fattened up as fast as possible Diet: Grass and corn.
• In CAFOs, large numbers of animals 1,000 or more in the case of cattle and tens of thousands for chicken and pigs are kept in close, concentrated conditions and fattened up .
• The site is a giant feed lot in central Florida where 20,000 cattle at a time are fattened.

• fatten
• fat
• flesh out
• fill out
• plump
• plump out
• fatten out
• fatten up

News & Articles

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• This Foie Gras ‘Factory’ Might Make You Want to Be a Goose
  Serving foie gras is illegal in California. The loophole to the 2004 law, which went into effect last year, is that it outlaws the sale of fattened goose and duck liver; restaurants can give it away. But when a restaurant in San Jose recently offered a foie freebie, the chef received death threats.
  June 13, 2013 - Takepart.com via Yahoo! News
• Report: 10 worst charities
  An analysis by the Center for Investigative Reporting and a newspaper identifies the charities that fattened solicitors' wallets.
  June 13, 2013 - MSN
• Mayor not interested in undoing secret pension fattener for ex-fire commissioner
  Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday showed no interest in undoing the secret deal that fattened the pension of former Chicago Fire Commissioner Ray Orozco, arguing that the controversy diverts attention from the more important issue: pension reform. “I’ve said this before when somebody tries to take one personality and say, `That’s the problem.’ The challenge in the fund for firefighters is not Ray ...
  June 11, 2013 - Chicago Sun-Times

Quotes

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• John McCain in The Miami Herald
  On the campaign trail in Minnesota, McCain said "an inexcusable lack of financial transparency allowed Wall Street firms to engage in reckless behavior that padded their profits and fattened executive bonuses when times were good."
• Bruce Bochy in USA Today
  On the one hand, we see the sabbath of witches who have been fattened up with oranges and who pretend that they represent the whole of the nation, on the other hand we see the peaceful power of constructive forces that has gathered in this... Yuri Luzhkov http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Luzhkov&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFXN7ZU8m7aIOjeyuM5fZJSsbsiFQ USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-11-27-ukraine_x.htm%3FPOE%3DNEWISVA&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGOTN50e6G6g8xG5sAB0hM-p9lUOw Nov 27, 2004 36584 47323 fattened You look at their numbers and you'd think we were in a softball league when it's over," Padres manager Bruce Bochy said. "They have some young guys who can swing the bat. We fattened up some averages, that's for sure."