Levantamento da origem dos ovos de feira livre de Uberlândia

Abstract

Today's street market are not only economic, but also social and cultural, representing their relevance for their study. The research was developed with the objective of analyzing the origin of the egg that is marketed in the street market of the city of Uberlândia, verifying if the production has traits of animal welfare. Also reporting the possible existence of some marketer that produces the egg that trades in the street market. Data collection was first performed at the street market of the city of Uberlândia, which were selected to cover all regions of the city, east, west, north, south and center. A total of 29 stalls were randomly selected and through an open and informal conversation, information was obtained on the origin of the eggs. In the second stage, visits were made to suppliers of the street market, the egg distributors, through an open and informal conversation, it was possible to obtain information about the origin of eggs obtained by the distributor, and their distribution. With the analysis of the data obtained, it was possible to verify that the eggs marketed in the street market of Uberlândia come from common farms that do not have a system focused on animal welfare. Distributors bring the eggs and resell them to the city's marketers. Also no producer, only reseller, was found.