Métodos de conservação de alimentos e logística: reflexões sobre humanidade e princípios éticos-jurídicos.

Abstract

Food has been the source of human survival since Australopithecus afarensis took a new step of evolution with a slight increase of the skull in the first hominids, marking the evolution of the being that dominates this planet. Conservation is a term widely used in physics and chemistry and reflects the possibility of saving energy. Conserving food would be a lot of that, “storing energy”. To not allow the nourishment to perish could be the difference between life and death among barbarians or between German soldiers in the winter of Leningrad. Different conventional and unconventional preservation methods are recognized. Our goal is to reflect on the importance of food logistics for humanity, using as exploratory research methodology associated with document analysis and literature review. A qualitative approach was developed in this study to analyze the relationship between conservation methods and logistics in a way that can discuss the importance of the dialogue of ethics in the development of humanity. Here science and ethics provide the basis for reflection on the future. As much as science and technology advance, without ethics, all the achievements of knowledge are useless and the human race will continue to suffer from a paradox of evolution of food logistics and a backwardness.