Objective:

This research intends to visualize the power exercised by food and its prohibition as a form of control and submission as an act of violence.

Methodology:

Within the framework of cultural studies and based on bibliographical analysis, it outlines some historical and current events that frame the use of power in order to submit and dominate a fundamental right of all human beings.

Results:

These events can serve as a clear example. This is how the entitlement of power (not in a symbolic level, but corporal) is used by humanity against its equals through food, defining how this corporal-feeding violence has been used, and the same violence that is still present nowadays

Limitations:

This text does not include the perception of victims of food violence, which could complement the analysis carried out.

Conclusions:

It remains in evidence the use of power in order to submit and dominate a body through feeding, an exercised power -resented and re-felt- over the biological and the cultural.

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