antifood

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ food

Adjective[edit]

antifood (comparative more antifood, superlative most antifood)

  1. Opposing food.
    • 1969, United States Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates (volume 115, part 21, page 28441)
      Our planes in Vietnam spray herbicides on the rice and vegetable crops of the Vietnamese in an antifood campaign.
    • 2006, Connie Guttersen, The Sonoma Diet, page 42:
      If you've tried to lose weight before, you probably sensed intuitively that such an antifood approach would be a problem.
    • 2007 June 14, Penelope Green, “When the Real Estate Market Sizzles, the Oven Stays Cold”, in New York Times[1]:
      “It’s not that I’m antifood or against preparing it,” he said, “or that I don’t know how.