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.
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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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