História do consumo de carne no Paraná: contexto da revolução verde

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the consumption of meat in Paraná between the 1960s and 1970s. For that, it seeks to understand historical and socioeconomic processes that involve the consumption habits of the region's population, focused on the production and commercialization of meat. With regard to production specifically, we seek to inquire about the origin of the animals, as well as the slaughterhouses. In addition, we will discuss about some perspectives on the consumption of this type of food and possible gender issues involved in the processes that involve meat consumption in the State of Paraná. For this, it is essential to present a historical context of what is understood as urbanization and modernization of agriculture in the region. The work is divided into three chapters, apart from the introduction and final considerations. The second chapter will analyze the historical formation of the habit of eating meat in Paraná, which is a reflection of the indigenous, Portuguese, cattle drovers and other non-Portuguese immigrant food culture. In the third chapter, we analyse the socioeconomic processes that made meat part of the eating habit in Paraná, by the urbanization, the modernization of agriculture and farming processes. Also, the Green Revolution is analyzed, as well as the composition of arguments that are formed from the apology for meat consumption. In addition, this chapter also addresses social issues about gender, with regard to media advertisements that encourage the sale of meat, and finally, issues related to poverty and scarcity related to the production and price of such food. In the fourth chapter, we work on the possible alternatives for meat consumption that emerged in the 1970s. Thus, the relationship between income and meat consumption is analyzed, and what are the differences and similarities between the consumption of men and women. It should be noted that the alternatives are largely related to health issues, where the construction of new practices through vegetarianism and veganism. The research is based on a qualitative methodology, whose techniques are a bibliographic review of theses, articles and scientific journals. As sources the newspaper Diario do Paraná were researched, acessed online in Hemeroteca Digital - BNDigital - Fundação Biblioteca Nacional.