Direito à vida dos animais não humanos no Brasil: A busca por equilíbrio na relação animal humano e não humano

Abstract

This monograph aims to analyze the right of non-human animals to life by observing the historical context of the legal protections created in favor of the subject, and, mainly, with the Complementary Law Project 27/2018. In addition, research based on important sources for such follow-up to the Law is used, such as the Federal Constitution, jurisprudence, the International Declaration of Animal Rights, the doctrine and research in books by national and international authors on the subject. Thus, in order to assist the search for understanding the subject, a reflective, systematic and critical procedure was used, based on bibliographic review and theoretical research. Thereby, by creating all the necessary background to understand the theme, it is possible to conclude how controversial the matter is, a fact that occurs due to the culture of the human animal in underestimating and lowering non-human animals in terms of their rights, as they only see them as an object and not as subjects of depersonified rights. Furthermore, the positive evolution of such a right in our law is identified, including with recent decisions that aggravate penalties regarding mistreatment, for example, in addition to an increasing number of researches carried out in the area.