includes studying the different intensities of respect by States regarding the individuality and customs of their native peoples. The protection of the cultural identity of minorities is only one aspect of the postmodern way of seeing, where each individual may claim and achieve a right to be different (droit à la différence).” 91 This demonstrates that gastronomy ensures the preservation of ancestral practices in the face of cultural homogenization. Under these conditions, regional gastronomy serves as a vector supporting movements that value traditional foods and combat food standardization, encouraging artisanal and sustainable production. Moreover, it promotes the diversity of culinary expressions, ensuring that citizens may create, produce, and disseminate a wide range of cultural goods and services. It is a true response to the impact of globalization, for eating is a political act.92 A voracious “fast food” chain or “international restaurant network” offering “universal dishes” in place of feijão tropeiro, farofa, or arroz com pequi represents a genuine cultural assault. Gastronomic law, therefore, is also a discipline of “political resistance,”93 including resistance against “food colonialism.” 94 III. MENU OF PRINCIPLES, CONSUMER PROMOTION, AND THEATRICALIZATION OF THE BODY As previously noted, it is rationally appropriate to understand the relationship between Law and Gastronomy by formulating a new legal discipline, autonomous and independent, grounded in legal sources, the need for legal certainty, and the adoption of justice-based foundations. As a holistic discipline, it has obvious connections with Civil Law, Business Law, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, Copyright Law, Consumer 91 JAIME, Erik. Visões para uma teoria pós-moderna do direito comparado. Revista dos Tribunais. v. 759. São Paulo: RT, 1999, p. 24 – 40. 92 SOUZA, Tadeu de Lima. Comer é um ato político. Ou um breve panorama dos modos de produção dos alimentos. Revista Eletrônica do NIESBF, ano 2020, v.09, n.1. Duque de Caxias, ano 2020, v. 09. In: Downloads/ admin_depext,+Comer+%C3%A9+um+ato+pol%C3%ADtico.+RevistaHNE(Tadeu+Lima+de+Souza)+(1). docx. Accessed on Jan. 23, 2026 93 FLORES, Joaquín Herrera. Teoria crítica dos direitos humanos: os direitos humanos como produtos culturais. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris, 2009. 94 From a decolonial perspective, see the text by Squeff, Tatiana Cardoso; D’Aquino, Lúcia Souza. A prática de geoalimentação da indústria de alimentos: o caso dos produtos alimentares para bebês do sul global. Revista de Direito do Consumidor. v. 159. São Paulo: Ed. RT, 2025, p. 209-234. They argue: “It is not new that food products marketed in the Global North reach the margins of the World-System, altering the consumption patterns of these places.” 88 FERNANDO RODRIGUES MARTINS | MIGUEL CABRAL DE ARAÚJO MARTINS
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