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 only half an hour, the truck arrived on a large farm and unloading began. Gloria and the other cows and bulls were lead into a large building. Inside, they could see large compartments, each filled with about 20-30 animals of different weight. But before that, they had to be prepared for their new life. A farmhand moved the first of them, a bull, into a small box. He quickly inserted a plug into the bull's anus and put a clamp on his nose. The electric current made the bull immobile, though he was still fully conscious. A famrhand pressed a freeze brander on his rump, marking him as farm property. Next, another farmhand put a strange tool around the bull's ballsack. There was a hizz and a smell of burned flseh. With a agrin, the men held the bull's ball sack in his hands which he had just cut off with an electric knife. Then the electric holding devices where removed. The bull was lead into an empty pen on shaking legs. Gloria was shocked but before she could think any more, she received a shock from an electric prod and was lead into the pen herself. She was immobilized with the anal probe and received her branding. She was now an item of property, she thought, just like a chair or a car. A second later she found herself in the same pen as the poor bull-now-steer. She looked at the poor nutless animal that was still shaking.