THE WAY I SEE IT
It’s called “softening up for the kill.” It’s a term familiar to those who’ve been around a feed lot or who have ever raised an animal to be slaughtered for food.
Take a pasture-raised calf and move it to a feed lot where for a chosen period of time it is fed a good corn and grain mixture so that its meat should become tender before the slaughter. Sounds macabre, in a way, but to …
