# Carnivorism: what? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 24, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340 "2021-01-24T03:24:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340/82 "2021-01-27T01:31:51Z")
Most of us are mostly second hand vegetarians. With a smidgen of 3rd-hand and a bunch of direct eat-your-own-veggies mixed in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340/83 "2021-01-27T05:55:43Z")
The OP must have been terribly hurt somehow by plants–whether it was a physical or emotional hurt I will not speculate. He is attempting to get his revenge by persuading all animal life on earth to turn vegetarian and wipe out the hated plants. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340/84 "2021-01-27T07:10:40Z")
> [@cantelope](#): > > During play they learn about pain, that it hurts and is to be avoided. You’re on the wrong dating sites. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340/85 "2021-01-27T09:28:25Z")
What a ridiculous misinterpretation of the OP’s username - they are clearly a three-legged wildebeest - no wonder they want all predators to become vegetarian! ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340/86 "2021-01-28T17:44:48Z")
For what it’s worth, my stepdaughter called pronghorn “cantelopes” when she was little… ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340/87 "2021-01-28T17:51:39Z")
There’s a gladed ski run, not on the maps, between Catamount Bowl and Antelope at Mad River Glen, VT. It’s usually referred to as Cantelope. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340/88 "2021-01-28T18:41:25Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > For what it’s worth, my stepdaughter called pronghorn “cantelopes” when she was little… I can remember as a kid singing _Home on the Range_ as > … where the deer and the cantelope play … Then laughing like crazy. Over and over and over. It’s a wonder Mom hadn’t strangled all of us kids before we were 8. Forget not that very special critter the antennalope [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ESTkOWjl3w4/hqdefault.jpg "Nextel Commercial - NWDC "Antennalope"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESTkOWjl3w4) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnivorism-what/931340.md?page=4)