What's the difference between provender and victuals?

Provender

Definition:

(n.) Dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.
(n.) Food or provisions.

Example Sentences:

(1) With a view to form an experimental model of protein-malnutrition, mice are fed with two different commercial diets, the "nutrixan" and the "provende" which are included in different concentrations to a rice starch.
(2) Only the "provende" gives an workable model with three different growths which differ from the normal by a decrease which is proportional to the protein-deficiency.
(3) This notwithstanding, only 50% of the milk protein processed by the dairy industry are at present employed in human nutrition, the remainder is used as a provender.

Definition:

(n. pl.) Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

Example Sentences:

(1) He became chair of the Society of Licensed Victuallers, recognised for his fundraising work.
(2) The claim for a zero tolerance for victuals and ready-to-use baby foods is corroborated.
(3) A hypothesis is framed about which any influences of the nutrition may cause variations of the cranium, but concerning physiological data, kinds of nutrition and special victuals' ingredients cannot still be mentioned.
(4) West and east Indian trade founded merchant dynasties, but also created a hinterland of ship builders, outfitters, victuallers, warehousemen, carriers and wholesalers.
(5) Data were collected from the stores accounts of six ships over a period of 32,354 man-victualling-days.
(6) In 1849 C. D. Schroff established therein the Institute for Experimental Pharmacology of Vienna University and around 1864 A. E. Vogl began his outstanding microscopic investigations of pharmacologically relevant plants and of victuals.