Sofrimento animal nos experimentos e testes de cosméticos : insuficiência de proteção jurídica do ordenamento jurídico brasileiro.

Abstract

The relationship between man and the animal is a long one, starting in prehistoric times, with the domestication of non-human animals. However, at the cost of much animal suffering, due to its unbridled use by industry. Therefore, this undergraduate thesis aims to investigate the extent to which the protection of animals in the Brazilian legal system against the cosmetic tests conducted by the industry takes place, from the analysis of how the State legislates for animal protection and what other institutes ensure animal protection against the cruelty used in cosmetic tests. For this assignment, the deductive hypothetical method is used, through the study of academic, legislative, and jurisprudential sources, national and international, to achieve the research objective. In view of this, the relationship of man with the animal was examined, from its domestication to its exploitation by the industry. In this line, animal sentience was analyzed, that is, the animal's capacity to feel pain and suffering. Next, was investigated the national and international legislative production related to animal protection in general and in relation to experimentation and testing of cosmetics on non-human animals. At the end of this research, concludes that the Brazilian legislation about the protection and testing of cosmetics on animals violates constitutional precepts and is below the foreign legislation on the subject. Furthermore, infers that there is a need for a more protective law to eradicate the cruelty and suffering that animals are subjected to daily during these tests.