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"I am thinking of setting up a new unit with my son for fattening calves," he says.
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They are used to supply farms where they are fattened up for sale in Asia where eels are a highly sought delicacy.
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He was a skinny teenager told to go to buy milkshakes to "fatten him up".
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Soybean Export Council, a trade group, opened a Beijing office in 1982 to spread the word about protein-packed U.S. soybeans used to fatten livestock.
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Business tax breaks cut federal revenues by $77 billion this year, fattening the pockets of rich corporate insiders.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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