| By the 16th century the British wild boar had become rare, and pigs, specially fattened on whey, were used instead. |
| Instead of sending them to feedlots to be fattened on grain, farmers are keeping animals home on the range. |
| The beccafico, however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, and on this account was preferred by some sensitive tastes to the ortolan. |
| At the age of fifteen years he bought ten bonhams and fattened them and eventually increased to fifteen sows, selling off the bonhams. |
| Instead, tuna are taken from the wild, enclosed in nets and dragged to shore where they are corralled in pens and fattened on an oil-rich diet. |
| Prodigal servings of pure saturated color are fattened further with a rich welter of tints, tones and shades. |
