Mental Health, Human Rights and Environmental Justice:

the Chemicalization of Life as a matter of violation of human rights relating to institutionalized intoxication

Abstract

This work addresses the problem of the socio-sanitary and environmental consequences of the vicious circle that links violation of rights, food insecurity and institutionalized intoxication, mainly in relation to the effects on Mental Health resulting from environmental contaminants and pesticides, considered as a matter of violation human rights. The predatory model of post-industrial capitalism was born linked to central factors, such as: chemical-dependent agriculture, social medicalization and Nutritional Transition, associated with the perverse commodification of natural resources. The expansion of large-scale monocultures with the use of agrochemicals and pesticides, the expansion of the pharmaceutical industry and medical technology, and the expansion of the additive industrial food model are consequences associated with these interconnected factors. And this process is allowed in an institutionalized and legalized way and has been producing multiple violations of human rights and the deepening of several forms of intoxication and illness: this model can be called the paradigm of the chemicalization of life.