Most human beings are omnivores although vegetarians are herbivores. Both terms are combining forms, a combination of segments that derive from Latin: omni- all + vorus devouring, and herbi- grass/herb + vorus. The verb to devour itself contains the Latin segment vorus. According to Peggy Orenstein , the recent species of locavores, people who prefer to devour locally grown food, has now a new kinswoman, the femivore: femi- woman + vorus. Bon appetite!
Peggy Orenstein actually reports on women who tend to a chicken coop next to their kitchen garden. In the same edition of the NYTmagazine, Ammon Shea warns against the use of “absurd Latinate words” which do not “serve any useful practical function." The practical function of femivore would be to declare these “tomato-canning feminists” cannibals, very far from what “these chicks with chicks” indeed are.
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