Veganismo e educação moral no cinema de ficção contemporâneo: Okja como ferramenta didática para o ensino de ética

Abstract

This article analyses the movie “Okja”, released in 2017, as an innovator cultural manifestation born from the environmental, ecological and ethical effervescence of vegetarianism, increasing in all of the world, making more supporters every Day. In Brazil it would not be different, and the success of audience example that, besides the notorious media space that the subject has received lately. From the movie, the first mass culture piece that approaches a serious matter with gravity, notes and reasoning are made, both illustrate and suggested by the film, regarding the actual and the future of animal rights (all of them). We suggest that this film can be used as a tool for teaching philosophy topics in school, as ethics and environmental education, among others.