use of land by extensive latifundia, and the absence of promotion of productive rural community settlements.59 (iii) Sectoral risks: contamination, food fraud, unjustified supply suspensions, and global crises such as pandemics and wars60. In due course, logistics is fundamental to issues of food and gastronomy. Its purpose is to ensure that products, ingredients, and inputs reach the right destination, at the right time, and under ideal conditions, without damage or loss of quality. It involves a set of integrated processes that sustain the entire chain— from agricultural production to the final service on the plate—with emphasis on transportation, carriers and routes (maritime, air, and land), storage, customer relations, and sustainability61. In gastronomic terms, this means avoiding stock ruptures without generating waste, creating the essential balance to keep costs under control and maintain product and service quality, especially considering strict controls of temperature, humidity, and hygiene. This subject directly reflects the chapter on civil liability in the Brazilian Consumer Defense Code (CDC), both regarding safety defects and inadequacy defects (Article 12 et seq.). Finally, nothing is more aggressive to the “culture of flavor” and to the “taster” than the use of pesticides, genetic engineering, and agrochemicals, which cause serious damage to the environment and health, while enabling profit increases and cost reductions for well-known multinationals—thereby accentuating risks for producers, communities, and consumers62. It seems that the best path would be one closer to agroecology and organic production63, without prejudice to the adoption of techniques of “generative freedom” —that is, agricultural production that, instead of merely extracting, can generate and contribute not only to the economy but also to the environment, while maintaining attention to food culture and tradition, as exemplified 59 SOUZA FILHO, Carlos Frederico Marés de. A função social da terra. Curitiba: Arte & Letra, 2021, p. 230. Manifests: “If the implementation of colonialism required the massive concentration of labor, which ultimately revealed itself in slavery, contemporary capitalism has reduced to the maximum the participation of workers in the countryside [...] They are large, immense, almost infinite plantations of money.” 60 OECD. Sustainable and Responsible Food Supply Chains. 2025. 61 BOWERSOX, Donald. J.; CLOSS, David. J.; COOPER, M. Bixbi; BOWERSOX, John C. Gestão da Cadeia de Suprimentos e Logística. Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier. 62 LAPPÉ, Frances Moore; COLLINS, Joseph. El Hambre en el mundo — diez mitos. Mexico: Comité Promotor de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo Rural, 1979. 63 ANTUNES, Ricardo Favoretto. A função da agroecologia na efetivação do direito humano à alimentação adequada. São Paulo: Editora Dialética, 2025, p. 131. Says: “Among the direct contributions of agroecology to the human right to adequate food can be cited the improvement of nutrition, the reduction of rural poverty, the increase of productivity in the countryside with the reduction of external inputs, the dissemination of good practices among male and female farmers, among many others.” 81 ‘STOMACH RULES’ AND CONSUMER PROMOTION
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