O especismo e o avanço mitigado na proteção dos animais no Brasil: o caso da lei nº 14.064 de 2020

Abstract

The present work aimed to understand why Law nº 14.064 of 2020 promoted an increase in the penalty for the crime of mistreatment of animals, provided for in the caput of article 32 of the Environmental Crimes Law, only in cases where it is practiced against dogs and cats, and to verify if the criteria that led to this choice have a speciesist bias. For that, it was adopted in this work the inductive method and performed through empirical analysis documental and bibliographic review, from a qualitative approach. Firstly, the legislative process covered by Bill No. 1,095 of 2019 was analyzed, verifying the predominance of an anthropocentric vision. From there, it was an analysis of the anthropocentric perspective present in Brazilian legislation in relation to to animals, focusing on the Federal Constitution and the Environmental Crimes Law. Speciesism was also discussed, and the existence of a bias speciesist in Law nº 14.064 of 2020, due to the predominance of human interests in its elaboration