Sentence examples similar to mad farmer from inspiring English sources

It suddenly occurred to me that I was alone, it was 7 20 in the morning, and the mad farmer-turned-witch might butcher me for breakfast.

In the evening staff light scented candles and lanterns all over the place and the food (they just serve breakfast and dinner) by chef Mark Wishart (ex-Le Gavroche and Marco Pierre White) is mainly based on the early morning catch (eg escabeche of red mullet, saffron and garlic) and veg from a mad organic farmer who plants according to the cycles of the moon.

Suzanne Daley (NYT) GERMANY: MAD COW PROTESTS Farmers protested across the country against a proposed policy of slaughtering entire herds of cattle when one animal is infected with mad cow disease.

On the West Coast, where imports of live Canadian cattle were heaviest until last May, when trading was halted after Canada reported its first case of mad cow disease, farmers and industry officials held teleconferences and meetings, hopeful that the Canada link meant the United States could maintain its mad-cow-free status.

We were told that vets were heroic, selfless safeguarders of animal rights, preferred real farm work to small animal practice (James never had much time for the hypochondriac lapdog Tricky Woo) and spent a lot of time in mad pursuit of Yorkshire farmers who had little intention of paying their bill.

But what, exactly, are farmers so mad about?

Clifford Krauss (NYT) EUROPE IRELAND: MAD COW FRAUD An Irish farmer was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to importing a cow with mad cow disease into his herd in 1996.

The germs cause mastitis (inflammation of the udder), which-next to mad cow disease-is a farmer's worst nightmare.

Now, the government estimates that the mad cow outbreak has cost farmers, meat packers, supermarkets and restaurants $2 billion over the last eight months.

(Reuters) SPAIN: MAD COW PROTEST Some 5,000 farmers, some with cows, halted traffic in Madrid by marching through the city center demanding compensation for the mad cow disease crisis, which they say has cost more than $1 billion.

Last year, he was taped at a private meeting saying that the farmer in the mad-cow case should have "shot, shovelled and shut up".In this section Counter-reform or muddle along?