“Biologique”, or “Biological”, is the term that the French use for “organic” food.
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Free-Range Chickens
Free-Range Chickens Free-Range Chicken is a term that doesn’t actually have much if any meaning. Though it conjures up images of one or two chickens pecking about on the lawn in the back garden, it can mean: that in theory there’s a door allowing chickens access to the outdoors (though the barn they are in…
Free-Range Total Freedom
Benjamin Nelan / pixabay.com / 2012 / CC0 1.0 Free-Range Total Freedom is a term referring to how poultry, usually chicken, was raised. In the UK, according to Defra’s “Poultrymeat Marketing Regulations”, this means that the birds have constant access to a great deal of outdoors space during daytime hours. The birds will be slaughtered…
Organic Food
EU Organic Logo © European Commission Organic Food is food that is, ostensibly, grown without manmade aids such as synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or fungicides, and processed with no synthetic additives, colouring or flavouring. Actual legal definition of the word varies wildly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In fact, it may be safer to think of it…
Traditional Free-Range
In the UK, according to Defra’s “Poultrymeat Marketing Regulations”, Traditional Free-Range means that more outdoor space is allowed per bird than with just “Free-Range” birds. The birds’ coops are mobile, and can be moved to fresh locations. Slower-growing breeds are used than for “Free-Range” birds, because the birds must be at least 81 days old…
Yuuki
Yuuki means “traditional farming methods” in Japanese. Japan still has a very large number of small farmers. These can’t afford to carry the costs of a large, official organic certification scheme, as can be done in Europe where there are large farms. And with their being small farms, they are easily influenced “environmentally” by all…