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Where cows go to stop moving and start marbling before becoming dinner.
means A fenced enclosure where livestock are fattened on concentrated feed before slaughter, rather than left to graze.
from Simply 'feed' plus 'lot' — a plot of land for feeding — the word is a plainspoken 20th-century American compound, born alongside the rise of industrial-scale cattle operations that swapped open range for efficient, fenced-in fattening.
- diet switch
- grass to corn, gut chaos ensues
- time spent
- roughly 4 to 6 months fattening
- scale
- some hold over 100000 cattle at once
- origin
- booomed post-ww2 with cheap corn surplus