Members of the articulate changes in elementary and high school textbooks to remove mentions considered pejorative to the Brazilian, many of them argue, without reliable information.
Last week, Deputy Tião Medeiros (PP-PR) met with representatives to discuss the issue and propose a seminar in the (Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock) to discuss “misinformation against agribusiness in textbooks and paradidics”. The intention is to invite authors of books, technicians and parliamentarians to this debate.
Medeiros says that the initiative came from a study by the NGO hired by FPA (Parliamentary Front of Agriculture) to evaluate the didactic content of elementary and high school and to know what vision was transmitted to the students of Brazilian agribusiness.
“To our surprise, the first realization was that 60% of the mentions were pejorative. And the second big surprise is that the mentions were unaccompanied by bibliographic sources,” says the deputy.
“So, the deforestation that takes over, the pesticide, only vague and inaccurate information and sometimes leads to the wrong understanding of what is Brazilian agribusiness.”
According to the deputy, the CBL representatives “understood the need” to update the sources of information of authors and also from publishers who revise and are responsible for the disappearance of the material. “And then we thought it was good to make a seminar sponsored by CNA to show the speed of agribusiness change in the country.”
Medeiros suggests CNA itself as a source of information for textbooks, as well as Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Company) and the ABC Foundation, which operates in research to develop new technologies.
“We who are following the business have difficulty knowing everything that is happening, who will say a person who does not have this experience. It is very difficult to write with ownership on such a fast and dynamic theme,” says the deputy.
“There are a lot of boy, especially from the big centers, who thinks chicken is born in the market refrigerator. That milk comes from the industry. So they don’t know what the production process is like. And obviously I don’t blame them, but it’s a reality. That’s what we need to wake up in the material,” he concludes.
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