Cattle Fodder Not Working?

So I go to use Cattle Fodder and the game tells me “That doesn’t look edible to you” which I don’t think is how this is supposed to work?

'a’pply the item in your inventory when you are adjacent to the animal you want to tame. And to 'E’at it you need a specific the bovine mutation I guess.

it acts like I’m trying to eat it when I (a)pply it, all variants of it, is the point

As I remember there’s a recent bug in activating pet food.