Jana Eagle wrote:

> are "free range almost their whole lives" which probably means they
> are fattened up on grain before they are slaughtered??

Hmm, I don't have an answer, but I wonder, how are domestic animals
that eat grass their whole lives, then fattened on grain any different
from a deer that fattens on my Dad's corn (a grass) before I eat it in
the winter? Or for that matter a wild paleolitic ox killed with a
flint tipped spear 20,000 years ago in the fall, after fattening on
ripe wild grass and legume seeds?