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The administration initially tried to give the NIH cuts a partisan coloration, suggesting that academic centers in blue states are fattening up on “indirect” research funding.

For example, it banned the export of live animals from Great Britain for slaughter and fattening and changed EU laws on gene editing crops.

Typically, once calves reach six or eight months, they are weaned and sent to larger, industrial pastures to roam in vast herds, fattening on grass, though this pastoral interlude is a short one.

It is so-called because the process of “fattening the pig” - gaining the victim’s trust - is vital to its success.

"The movement of sheep and goats for breeding, fattening and slaughter is banned throughout Greece," the agriculture ministry said.