Announcing the Winners of the “Beyond Consumer” Word Contest

What do you call the folks who stand with farmers and choose organic, local, authentic foods? Who care about economic justice for farmers, humane animal welfare standards, and good environmental stewardship?

The_WINNER
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“Consumer” just doesn’t cut it so we put the question to Cornucopia’s 55,000 enewsletter subscribers.  We were deluged with suggestions — some serious, some clever, some downright silly (for a chuckle read the list below).

From the total 150+ entries the staff picked our favorites. Then we shared the top 20 on Facebook for a vote. Drumroll, please!

The winners are…

  1. Real Food Advocate, submitted by Margy Lambert
  2. Conscious Eater, submitted by James Eisenstein
  3. Food Citizen, submitted by both Joan Gussow and Fred Kirschenmann

Each winner will receive a credit to ACRES USA, North America’s top organic/sustainable agriculture magazine and online bookshop. Thank you, Margy, James, Joan and Fred.

Milton Bosch deserves special mention for the sheer number and cleverness of his entries, among them: agronauts, organophile, cropper, organoclient, rooter, croppie, foodist, organist, pick niks, paytriots, garden angels, rain dears, aggies, growin’ men and women, and…wait for it…suns o’britches.

Are you an organitarian? An earth ally? Check out the word wizardry below:

  1. agri-ally
  2. agri-culturalist
  3. alternivore
  4. clean food ally
  5. cropper
  6. eartharian
  7. eco-eater
  8. eco-foodist
  9. ecophile
  10. far-sighted food forager
  11. farmaniac
  12. farm friends
  13. farm loyalist
  14. food champion
  15. food fighter
  16. foodie
  17. freshie
  18. good food enthusiast
  19. green believer
  20. guts with guts
  21. harmonian
  22. healthsteader
  23. humaneitarian
  24. kinsumer
  25. mindful muncher
  26. Monsantophobe
  27. nourishee
  28. organivore
  29. plant patriot
  30. retrovore
  31. steward
  32. sustainability seeker
  33. sustainer
  34. symbiovore
  35. wholly roller
  36. yuppie suppie

A big “thank you” to all who participated and to ACRES for the prizes!

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