How it´s to be rawfruitarian in a culturally carnivorous country?

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How it´s to be rawfruitarian in a culturally carnivorous country?

My inner path. By Luciano Bonfico

 

As it is natural in Argentina, a culturally carnivorous country, my

approach to the vegetarian ,vegan, and rawfruitarian ideas had to

wait many years because there was nothing in the surrounding world

able to provoke in me this kind of preference. For people of these

latitudes daily ingestion of meat is a fact as natural as the sight

of snow is for a Nordic inhabitant. Why did I eat meat? Because my

ancestors had been doing so century after century and they received

identical cultural transmission from their ancestors.

 

When in a culture a determined bias has got such a complete approval,

this means that those who put it in practice don't even need its

acceptance at all. In the same way, it is not a controversial subject

the language one is going to speak through life. So, being

carnivorous in the country where I was born is not an idea or a

matter of convictions ,but only a nutritional way, just as Spanish

is my idiomatic mean.

 

It is all about something that greatly exceeds the border between

Good and Evil, for in order to speak in that terms, there must exist

previously the option of choice. And as we see, nobody can choose

that which he/she doesn't know. In fact, I will never forget the

impression that produced me the first readings about the subject.

They used to enfatically state that as far as the scientist knowledge

comprove meat is not necessary to survive when our teachers at school

proclaimed its use drilling my ears since I was a child, praising the

advantage of animal proteins over vegetal ones.

 

How could it be possible that meat was unnecesary to get a healthy

life, when i was told that meat and dairy procucts where the basic

bricks in my diet? Could it be really factible to avoid the animal

slaughter without putting in danger my health, taking in mind that at

elementary school the only official accepted teaching had convinced

me that, inside the Food Chain, each link is where it has to be. That

animals are not in the world to satisfy our stomach's caprice or to

dress our naked bodies, when the prevailing Judaeo -Christian

teaching doesn't give up proclaiming from birth to death that all

what is over the earth is for the human being to make use of it.

Because as we all know " our " paternal God allows it and so he/she has

wanted always and forever.

 

With such an adverse atmosphere, does anybody believe possible that a

child , thoughtful as it can be, may even suspect the possibility of

a different nutritional way from the previousely described one? The

problem is that someday childhood ends. As one grows up , one has

the chance to face a searing process of step by step

individualization which consists on confirming the validity of a lot

of principles we have learned and to remove ( how painfully!) many of

them.

 

There is no greater paradox in human behavior than the following : to

want (and have to be) at the same time oneself and oneself` s tribe.

As far as I am concerned, this process of spiritual tearing began

with the suspicion that there is no valid excuse to inflict suffering

to a living being which I see capable of love, courage, loyalty and

sometimes to give me such a perfect and radiant beauty that can

bewitch my mind. After all, wasn't I an animated living being that

would suffer as they suffer if someone hurts me, tortures me and

removes me away from my habitat and my beloved ones, and at last

they kill me, quarter and sell me to others to boil, roast and

flavore me?

 

As soon as I became aware of all this burning matter thing were the

same no longer. In fact, it changed so completely my point of view

about animal rights, that it became gradually for me much more a

conviction than a perplex complaining in my heart. The moment to act

had arrived, to put in practice my new ideas and to create arguments

capable to incite others to walk the same path. This meant for me the

need to study subjects related to vegetarianism and veganism

(nutrition, laws that protect the meat industries and others,

expert's opinions ,alternative medicines) and over all the complete

and rampant evidence of the health and longevity showed off by many

renowned vegetarians like my admired Irish dramatist George Bernard

Shaw. Or to talk about the effort that cost me learning about the

possibility that cosmetic and beauty personal products don't take the

life or the suffering of an animal whose little body has ended as a

mere experiment object penned up in a cold and dark laboratory's

cell.

[Guest guest]

It isn't always easy as you so aptly explain

And god has a lot to answer for

Its about time he sorted his followers out

When he does I might deign to think about what he has said

< but then I've managed to do better than most of his followers so I

probably won't bother

Angie ( who thinks god has let animals down badly and needs to be

told - of course if he doesn't exist that would explain why he isn't

listening !!!! ))

-

" evermarmol " <frutariano

 

Sunday, December 23, 2001 6:38 AM

How it´s to be rawfruitarian in a culturally

carnivorous country?

 

 

How it´s to be rawfruitarian in a culturally carnivorous country?

My inner path. By Luciano Bonfico

 

As it is natural in Argentina, a culturally carnivorous country, my

approach to the vegetarian ,vegan, and rawfruitarian ideas had to

wait many years because there was nothing in the surrounding world

able to provoke in me this kind of preference. For people of these

latitudes daily ingestion of meat is a fact as natural as the sight

of snow is for a Nordic inhabitant. Why did I eat meat? Because my

ancestors had been doing so century after century and they received

identical cultural transmission from their ancestors.

 

When in a culture a determined bias has got such a complete approval,

this means that those who put it in practice don't even need its

acceptance at all. In the same way, it is not a controversial subject

the language one is going to speak through life. So, being

carnivorous in the country where I was born is not an idea or a

matter of convictions ,but only a nutritional way, just as Spanish

is my idiomatic mean.

 

It is all about something that greatly exceeds the border between

Good and Evil, for in order to speak in that terms, there must exist

previously the option of choice. And as we see, nobody can choose

that which he/she doesn't know. In fact, I will never forget the

impression that produced me the first readings about the subject.

They used to enfatically state that as far as the scientist knowledge

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