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Farmageddon
Farmageddon, a portmanteau of ''farm'' and ''Armageddon'', can refer to: * ''Farmageddon'' (book), a 2014 book by Philip Lymbery * ''Farmageddon'' (comic strip), a British comic strip * Iowa State–Kansas State football rivalry The Iowa State–Kansas State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Iowa State Cyclones and the Kansas State Wildcats every year since 1917, making it the among the longest continuous series in college football hi ..., an ongoing competition between Iowa State University and Kansas State University * '' A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon'', 2019 animated film {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portmanteau
A portmanteau word, or portmanteau (, ) is a blend of wordsGarner's Modern American Usage , p. 644. in which parts of multiple words are combined into a new word, as in ''smog'', coined by blending ''smoke'' and ''fog'', or ''motel'', from ''motor'' and ''hotel''. In , a portmanteau is a single morph that is analyzed as representing two (or more) underlying s. When portmanteaus shorten es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmageddon (book)
''Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat'' is a 2014 non-fiction book by Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott. It surveys the effects of industrial livestock production and industrial fish farming around the world. The book is the result of Lymbery's investigations for which he travelled the world over three years. Isabel Oakeshott is the political editor of ''The Sunday Times'', Philip Lymbery is CEO of Compassion in World Farming. The book was published by Bloomsbury. Synopsis The thesis examined in the book is that globalised production chains of industrialised agricultural systems negatively affect farmed animals, human health, the countryside, rivers and oceans, biodiversity in rainforests and many of the world's poorest people. The authors seek to shed light on the conditions in intensive agriculture which, according to them, often differ from the image that the industry wants to sell to the public. Intensification in animal farming goes along with a growing demand of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmageddon (comic Strip)
''Farmageddon'' started life in 1991 as a comic strip called ''The Funny Farm'' and was created by Niel Bushnell and Gordon Fraser. Bushnell and Fraser were friends from school and both wanted careers as comic artists. They began to develop an idea for a newspaper comic strip based around a farm. Initially inspired by American comic strips such as ''Calvin and Hobbes'' and ''Garfield'', the comic soon found its own blend of humour. ''The Funny Farm'' ''The Funny Farm'' was published in the ''Hartlepool Mail'' from 1992 until 1994. It was also published in a short lived Sunday paper called the ''News & Echo''. In 1994 a new editor joined the ''Hartlepool Mail'' who didn't like ''The Funny Farm'' and cancelled its run. The demise of the comic strip coincided with Niel moving to London to pursue a career in animation. In 1997 Niel and Gordon began to develop ''The Funny Farm'' as an animated series. The pair travelled to Annecy in France for the annual animation festival. A meetin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa State–Kansas State Football Rivalry
The Iowa State–Kansas State football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Iowa State Cyclones and the Kansas State Wildcats every year since 1917, making it the among the longest continuous series in college football history as of 2020, as well as ''the'' single-longest ''never''-interrupted rivalry in college football. Because so many college football rivalries were interrupted by the 2020 Covid pandemic, Iowa State/Kansas State and UCLA/Cal are now the ''only'' two never-interrupted rivalries that still exist in the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I college football The October 2016 game marked the 100th straight year the two teams have met. History The teams first met in 1917, when both universities were members of the erstwhile Missouri Valley Conference. The match-up continued as an annual conference game through the schools' shift into the Big 12 Conference. The series has been dominated by long winning streaks for both teams, with each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
