Rotulagem ambiental e padrão internacional: um caminho para a ética animal nas indústrias de cosméticos

Abstract

Scientific experiments with animals are still based on the Cartesian paradigm. This thought is characterized by certainty and attachment to order. In addition, the Cartesian method assumes that animals do not feel pain. Thus, it is based on the understanding that there is a link between the scientific experiments with animals in the cosmetics industry and the hyperconsumption caused by economic development. The exercise of economic activity makes intensive use of natural resources, and it is necessary for companies to carry out environmentally adequate practices. Companies commonly adopt an insufficient concept of sustainable development for the current problem. Thus, when performing animal safety tests, which aims to broaden the range of products, unnecessary suffering is caused, since several tests can be replaced by substitute methods. In view of this, the question has as a starting point the following: how and in what way the international standardization of Cruelty Free stamps can provide the insertion of an animal ethics in the cosmetics industries? In order to do so, the connection between the scientific paradigms and the animal rights, the emergence of the ethical aspects of animal protection and the increase of the campaigns of protection, is based on the use of seals linked to environmental labeling in the cosmetics industries . It is attentive to the importance of complex thinking and the ethical aspects of animal protection. In this context, the research aims to analyze a necessary international standardization of Cruelty Free stamps in order to promote the elimination of scientific tests in the cosmetics industry and, consequently, an insertion of an animal ethics in this business sector. Finally, the need for an international standardization of animal-related seals in the cosmetics industry is demonstrated, since it is a suitable instrument for the elimination or reduction of animal suffering. Based on research of a qualitative nature, through indirect research and descriptive, explanatory and dialectical methods, the need for an international standardization of animal-related seals in the cosmetics industry is demonstrated, since it is a suitable instrument for insertion of animal ethics in this sector.