Ecocídio e direito animal: Desafios legais, ambientais e éticos na Indústria agropecuária.

Abstract

There is currently a solid body of evidence about the unsustainability of the livestock industry. This end-of-course article, based on bibliographic and documentary research, provides an overview of the negative impacts of this productive sector, mainly addressing its environmental and ethical aspects through national and global data. The general objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between the excessive consumption of animal products as a preponderant element of socio-environmental collapse, taking into account not only environmental impacts, but also ethical issues related to animal rights. This study emphasizes the urgency of re-evaluating and reformulating human eating patterns in light of the damage to the environment caused by speciesism and the exploitation of fauna and flora. Finally, veganism is presented as a sustainable alternative that values animal welfare, offering a proposal for ethical restructuring based on animal abolitionism. Environmental Education (EE), guided by an ecocentric perspective, is identified as the most influential tool for promoting change towards a healthier and more compassionate food system, without animal cruelty. In addition, the importance of investments in sustainable production practices by the private sector is highlighted as an additional strategy to mitigate the environmental impacts of agribusiness and farming and, thus, to promote a healthier and more compassionate food system without animal cruelty.