Bio
The Dutch use of the prefix 'bio' - as in bio-industrie - may make you think of green fields and happy lambs, but in fact it means factory farming. However, bio-vlees means organic meat, not meat produced by a factory farm. To confuse the issue still further, the Dutch word for organic food is biologisch.
I must say that the organic food wave is not that big here compared to the UK. Initially we generally gave it a miss due to its pricing but we started to re-visit biologisch food, mainly for Aidan. Amazing what we would do for our love ones...
Saturday, 15 September 2007
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3 comments:
Thanks for this enlightenment...
I'd have always thought Bio refers to Biologisch thanks to a Biologisch store in Delft.....
If you're thinking about it, I can get some links for you. We're going to start ordering organic meat, veggies & fruit after we come back fr SG in November later. You can pick it up from any participating grocery store in yr neighbourhood - not much there coz everyone goes to the supermarkets but there's one in Oud Geleen here near the Eindhoven Talen Centrum you used to go to. Selamat berpuasa again!
sama mcm German gaksssss.. dan ada Bio markt disana..
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