Estudo de revisão acerca do tratamento conferido a animais de consumo em favor da alimentação humana

Abstract

This article is the result of a systematic integrative literature review that aimed to identify how the scientific literature of the last five years (2017-2021) addressed the treatment given to production and consumption animals in favor of human food. Inserted in the Brazilian social context, non-human animals are protected by the Brazilian federal constitution, although the legal system does not declare the good that is protected when it mentions, in its article 225, that everyone has the right to an ecologically balanced environment, a good for common use by the people. and essential to a healthy quality of life, imposing on the public power and the community the duty to defend and preserve it for present and future generations. It was concluded that there is divergence in relation to the legally protected asset; that the literature is unanimous in admitting that the treatment given to animals for consumption in favor of human food involves suffering throughout the entire process from creation to slaughter; that the roots of the problem are based on behaviors and values constituted since time immemorial and that nowadays they assume anthropocentrism-speciesism as a pattern of sense of power based on the capitalist model of production; the raising of animals for consumption and the planting of grains to feed them generate great negative impacts on the environment, and it is urgent to change the current paradigm of the animal production model due to the need to align with the guidelines of the socio-environmental state guaranteed by the Brazilian Federal Constitution.