The Week contest: Veg prejudice

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This week's question: A new study has found that vegetarians report lower self-respect and derive less pleasure from life than omnivores, possibly because they are made to feel odd or different by meat eaters. Please come up with a term for the prejudice faced by vegetarians in a society dominated by carnivores.

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Cow cuddle

RESULTS:

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THE WINNER: "Vegudice"

Laurel Wroten, Petaluma, California

SECOND PLACE: "Kale chauvinism"

Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida

THIRD PLACE: "Veganimosity"

Ken Kellam III, Dallas

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Marrow mindedness"

Joe Valetti, San Leandro, California

"Carni-boorishness"

Janine Witte, New Hope, Pennsylvania

"Berryotyping"

Jennifer Kitchin, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

"Green spirited"

Barbara James, Bedford, Massachusetts

"Cuc-umbrage"

Brian Dunn, Chester, New York

"Plate crimes"

Kim Koehler, Portland, Oregon

"Supper-iority complex"

Linda Manuel, Stockton, New Jersey

"Disparagus"

Daniel Mackney, Palm Bay, Florida

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