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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.

Put it all together, and the Dodgers have taken one of the best rosters in baseball and fattened it.

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.

Adam worries over his physique, which he has tried to mold with Doritos, squats and a drug designed to fatten up livestock, “specifically sheep.”