Resumo

Food as a commodity contributes to the growth of all economies, but impair human health and environmental sustainability. From other perspective food is also treated as a common. The commons refer to “the set of conditions that facilitate social living by which persons or groups are enabled to more fully and readily achieve their goals and perfection” This study is structured as an understanding on how we adopted the common analysis, followed by the considerations about food safety and food security, and a discussion over the possibility to analyze food safety and food security as a common.

Food production system has been practically entirely turned as a commodity and market food production system, with globalization exacerbating the widening of food chains. The logic of food production nowadays is based on a highly commoditized matters and its production, harvest, manufacturing and distribution are impairing food safety and food security. We adopted the common analysis, and a discussion over the possibility to analyze food safety and food security as a common. . We set the following question to be answered: Can food safety and food security be understood as a common?

The commons are expressly defined as against the proprietary and mercantile logic expansion, usually identified in the neoliberalism. The neoliberalism logic, in this study exemplified through the large food production system, is destroying life conditions on planet and leading persons themselves destruction. Overall well-being and the environment are sacrificed for the financial profits of a few persons. The consequences of this logic are disastrous, and notorious. We presented food safety and food security issues in Brazil, and based on the common theory discussed food scenarios.

We could deduce it is illusory believe the Brazilian governments would protect the population from financial markets, from land expropriation, and from climate impairments. Generally, it is clear only government action is insufficient and inadequate to face environmental and public health problems. Specifically in Brazil, governments management contributes to harm the social system. The commons are expanding as a third force of governance and management for the natural and financial resources to meet market, sustainability and health needs.

Having the definition of the common, and the proposed scenarios and facts on how food producers, governments and societies deals with food production, consumers health, food market, we can relate food safety and food security as a common. Through food safety and food security, societies can more fully achieve a healthy and sustainable goals, which indeed are a fundamental condition for human existence. In this sense, governments and police makers must focus on food safety and food security issues carrying local communities at first and hence on a globalized management.

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