The two men put a halfter around her neck and led Gloria out of the door. Gloria followed willingly, excited what was to come next. After a short elevator ride and a long passage, Gloria was lead into a small holding pen. A man in a white coat approached and introduced himself: "Hi. I am Doctor Marcus, one of the vets here. I see you chose to become a beef cow. This means, you will be auctioned off to a local farmer. I will do some necessary check-ups and then we will get you in for tonight's sale." Dr. Marcus began to inspect Gloria closely. She felt strangely flattered when he gave an approving nod now and then. His inspection of her teats and vulva even sent shudders down her spine. Finally, he turned back to Gloria: "Very well, you're a prime beef cow. I just filled in all the certificates - so off you go!"
the two men from earlier came back in and took Gloria by her halfter. They herded her into a larger paddock, where already some other cows waited for tonight's auction. Gloria could see that some of them had very large udders. She mused, this had to be the milk cows. There were also some bulls in the adjourning paddock, some of them sporting impressive ball sacks while others had apparently been castreated to beef steers. Before Gloria had a chance to speak to any of the other cattle, the auction started. As she had been the last to join the pen, she was also the first to be moved into the auction hall. It was a small fenced ring with about two dozen men, farmers and traders, sitting on the stalls. Gloria heard a man introduce her, or rather her new form: "Our first offer is a young beef cow, six months old, 400 pounds. She promises fast weight gain and excellent meat quality." Several farmers looked interested and a keen bidding started. Finally, she went off to an older, nasty looking man in a blue overall. Gloria was lead to a new pen with a sign "Hanson Farms" on the gate. Her pen but also some of the others filled quickly as the auction went along. Finally, the auction was called off and the buyers began to load their newest acquisitions. Gloria followed docilely as her group was lead to a large trailer. She saw several other beef cows and some bulls in her group but no milk cows. The truck rumbled to life and they moved. None of the cattle seemed in the mood to talk. All were to excited what this meant.
After several hours the truck slowed down and slowly reversed before completely stopping. Gloria's legs hurt immensely from standing - she wasn't used to this. The door of the trailor opened and Gloria, momentarily forgetting where she was, urged forward pushing several cows ahead of her towards the exit of the truck. "Whoa Bessie..." came the voice of a large black man standing next to the man that had loaded her onto the truck. Both were standing behind metal bars that led away from where Gloria was, and curved around a corner out of sight.
"... shes in a rush to be turned into burgers!" he scoffed and roughly poked a long metal pole through the bars of the alleyway, which when it touched her she felt a heavy electric shock. She bellowed and out of her mouth came a long "mooooo".
The effect on the cows ahead of her made them run off down the chute, and she backed up before he hit something quite solid behind her.
Gloria turned her head and saw a large bull standing there. The bull snorted and sniffed at Gloria.
"Don't be getting randy now!" the man barked again towards Gloria and the bull before shocking the bull who started walking slowly down the alleyway in the direction of the others. "And now you!" the man zapped Gloria again and she reluctantly followed the bull having realised the door to the truck was already shut and the other cows were already walking down the alleyway.
And now there she was. A woman who voluntary changed into a beef cattle rounded up with cattle which are meant for the slaughterhouse. She was warned that this could happen, but she can't believe it's really gonna happen. She has chosen and accepted the risk that they will treat her as ordinary livestock. This morning she was an attractive and independent woman and now she is by her own choice a simple cow they want to kill for meat.