<<(b) is the process as 'unnatural' (to the point of timing slaughter to be just before a poisoned death) as described?>>
I can not speek about feed lot cattle so I will let others do that. I also have not read the book so I do not know what points the author has made.
But if you look at veal calves; then yes they are raised in such a way that they are ready to fall over and die. A calf can not live on milk alone and will die if not given grass. But we demand white veal as a consumer and that can only be done on a all milk diet. So a veal operation is in a race with every calf in the barn. Pump it full with as much milk as you can to put on weight and just before it is ready to die send it off to slaughter.
Chickens are in the same boat. Every chicken we eat is of a cross breed that is a eating machine. In fact there feed has to be limited so there legs have time to grow enough to hold there fat a$$ off the ground. If fed free choice they will eat so much and grow so fast that there legs will give out under their body weight.
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