Abstract
This article discusses the relationship between the social concern with the cruelty to animals and voluntary abstinence from meat consumption. Through a quantitative evaluation of scientific texts and conceptions of citizens, this study brings a reflection guided by different views about the factors that promote that consumption, often implying a vulnerability that requires the incorporation of new paradigms leading to conscious choices about the reality involved in the system of animal production. Although the diet is based on numerous biopsychosocial factors, the access to information, especially regarding scientific knowledge about animal consciousness, added to the consolidation of bioethics, contributes to the strengthening of a critical awareness about the treatment of animals, and potentially constitutes a stimulus for the decision to abstain from meat consumption. Vegetarianism, in its various expressions, does not always represent simply a nourishment habit, but a change of conduct aimed at a better interaction with nature, regardless of the academic area of training. Such a change can go beyond the aspect of animal welfare, reaching other spheres of abuse of subjects vulnerable to economic interests. Thus, changing ethical conceptions requires a rational decision that should be performed by consolidated ethical principles and intermediated by a dialogue promoted by sciences such as Environmental Bioethics, which proposes to mediate complex, globalized and plural issues to seek consensual solutions for all involved in this and in the future generations. Keywords: animal welfare, environmental bioethics, vegetarianism.
Highlights
O desenvolvimento tecnocientífico distanciou sucessivamente a humanidade da natureza
Em ambos os grupos foi quantificada a valoração do bem-estar animal, de cada uma das cinco liberdades determinadas pelo Comitê Brambel (Fischer e Oliveira, 2012), atribuição de consciência aos animais e informações sobre sistema de produção e substitutos da carne
A maioria dos não vegetarianos (OA=72% e OO=82%) nunca praticou o vegetarianismo, sendo que as motivações dos que praticaram não diferiram entre os grupos, porém divergiram no motivo que os levou a voltar a consumir carne (κ2(4)=3,2; p
Summary
Na primeira etapa da pesquisa foi realizada uma análise documental de textos científicos recuperados através do portal da Capes com a busca pelo termo “vegetarianismo” condicionado aos termos: “bem-estar animal”, “ética animal”, “direitos animais”, “percepção sobre vegetarianismo” e “percepção de bem-estar animal” nos idiomas inglês e português. Buscaram-se os artigos publicados entre os anos de 2000 a 2012, sendo selecionados 50 primeiros, categorizados utilizando-se o método de Bardin (1982), avaliando-se os prós e contras, bem como os motivos implicados na dieta vegetariana
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