invasivorism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

invasive +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

invasivorism (plural invasivorisms)

  1. the act of eating invasive species as a method of population control
    • 2014 October 14, Holly Hughes, editor, Best Food Writing 2014, Hachette Books, →ISBN:
      They willingly made the leap into invasivorism.
    • 2017 November 28, Gabriela Steier, Advancing Food Integrity: GMO Regulation, Agroecology, and Urban Agriculture, CRC Press, →ISBN, 4.2.2:
      The current regulation on invasive species fails to address invasivorism as a pest control and food safety concern because, on the one hand, current federal invasive species regulation is fragmented, convoluted, and misguided.
    • 2019, Christy Mihaly, Sue Heavenrich, Diet for a Changing Climate: Food for Thought, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 46:
      He has been considering the benefits of invasivorism since the early twenty-first century.