--- title: "Vegetarian News - Alimento, Agresión y Reverencia por la Vida - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "Vegetarian News - Alimento, Agresión y Reverencia por la Vida: Unión Vegetariana Internacional (IVU) IVU News Alimento, Agresión y Reverencia por la Vida por Claude Pasquini IVU News - March 2000 - English Cuando anhelamos un alimento, ansiamos los nutrientes, la" url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/5942-spanish-news-march2000-food.html" date: "2026-11-06T00:08:01+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # Vegetarian News - Alimento, Agresión y Reverencia por la Vida **Unión Vegetariana Internacional (IVU)** | ![IVU logo](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/members/pics/ivu-con4.gif) | | |---|---| | **IVU News** **Alimento, Agresión y Reverencia por la Vida** por [Claude Pasquini](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/4286-members-council-claude-pasquini.html) [**IVU News - March 2000**](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/5944-spanish-news-march2000-index.html) - [*English*](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/5677-news-march2000-food.html) Cuando anhelamos un alimento, ansiamos los nutrientes, la energía, la fuerza, la resistencia, en resumen, la vida que el alimento pueda darnos. Ansiar un alimento es también anhelar la experiencia del alimento: verlo, tocarlo, olerlo, saborearlo. Cuando comemos y sensorialmente experimentamos el alimento, incorporamos una parte del mundo que nos rodea. Por tanto confirmamos nuestro dominio sobre el mundo. **Alimento para la conciencia** Cuando mordemos un trozo de alimento, generalmente no lo hacemos con un espíritu de humildad. Es meramente un acto de agresión auto-afirmante, una necesidad de supervivencia, del mismo modo que la enérgica aunque inconsciente unión del bebé recién nacido al pecho de su madre es desesperadamente un comportamiento innato diseñado para hacer de este primer encuentro del recién llegado con la dureza del mundo tan seguro y tolerable como sea posible. Al sentir el recién nacido la leche tibia y densa, se hace consciente por vez primera del alimento. Y a medida que el bebé crece hacia la niñez y la madurez, la experiencia física del alimento se vuelve psicológica, y después mental, también. La consciencia física del alimento es la primaria y la más primitiva. Cuando empieza a gustarnos o a disgustarnos la comida, cuando empieza a afectar nuestras emociones, la consciencia física del alimento queda reemplazada por una de tipo psicológico. Mientras tanto, también aprendemos a discriminar los distintos tipos de alimento. Cuantos más productos comestibles somos capaces de reconocer, cuanto más sabemos sobre los alimentos y la química y fisiología de su digestión, más se convierte nuestra consciencia psicológica en mental. Es en ese momento cuando empezamos a pensar sobre por qué nos gustan ciertos alimentos más que otros y sobre qué constituye la combinación alimenticia ideal para nuestro bienestar físico, psicológico y mental. Podemos incluso intentar comprender cómo exactamente el alimento afecta nuestra totalidad existencial. **La inmortalidad de la vida** Esto es de suma importancia puesto que el alimento es nuestro contacto permanente con el mundo. Dependemos de él para sobrevivir, tanto como dependemos del mundo. A través del alimento, con él, y por él, manipulamos, controlamos, creamos y destruimos nuestro entorno. Cuando consumimos plantas, animales y sus productos derivados (frutas, semillas, frutos secos, leche, huevos, etc.), seguimos siendo lo que éramos de recién nacidos: agresivos en el sentido de autoafirmarnos con fines de supervivencia. Si no matamos y devoramos animales para sobrevivir, podemos comer sus huevos y leche o alimentarnos con vegetales únicamente. Si, además, no deseamos usar productos animales ni matar plantas para comer tampoco, tendremos que alimentarnos sólo con productos obtenidos de plantas. No obstante, hagamos lo que hagamos, de algún modo tenemos que destruir vida o vida en potencia. Esto es así simplemente porque *la vida se alimenta de vida. Es su modo de asegurarse la inmortalidad*. Comer es nuestro intento de asegurar nuestra inmortalidad, también. Nosotros, además, podemos decidir sobre nuestro comportamiento nutricional. Comer vegetariano es conceder a los animales el derecho de afirmar su voluntad de vivir. Ser vegano, por otro lado, es concederles la posibilidad y el derecho de procrear (huevos) y alimentar a su descendencia (leche). Algunos de nosotros confiamos sólo en las frutas, semillas, frutos secos y similares para alimentarnos, en un intento de evitar quitar la vida de las plantas. Esto se hace muy difícil y es prácticamente imposible no interferir con la vida en potencia. Sea como sea, cuanto más evolucionemos a lo largo de la línea de no interferencia con las diversas expresiones de la lucha de la vida por la inmortalidad y cuanto menos daño inflijamos sobre los animales y las plantas, mayor será nuestra humildad y reverencia por la vida. Si una espiritualidad basada en la nutrición significa algo, entonces esto es en lo que consiste: una forma de nutrirse que es agresiva como acto aunque pacífica y altruista en su intención. --- Claude Pasquini es el Coordinador de IVU para Europa y miembro del Consejo de IVU --- Toda contribución a **IVU News** será bienvenida. El material publicado no refleja necesariamente la opinión del editor o la postura de la Unión Vegetariana Internacional. --- | *Comer es un acto de agresión tanto como una expresión de la propia reverencia por la vida. Si deseamos enfrentarnos con cada aspecto de la nutrición, esta inusual pero realista visión de nuestro comportamiento alimentario necesita seria atención. Para una comprensión completa de la nutrición no se puede ignorar que comer no es sólo una cuestión de placer sino también una cuestión de vida o muerte.* --- **...hagamos lo que hagamos, de algún modo tenemos que destruir vida o vida en potencia. Esto es así simplemente porque la vida se alimenta de vida. Es su modo de asegurarse la inmortalidad.**--- A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly. Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. 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