Helmut Melzer
Bio-cyclic-vegan agriculture - This is the latest development in agriculture. The concept is not completely new: pioneers have already laid the foundations for this in the 20 and 30 years. The "natural farming", which represented a form of management in the interwar years, is in its ideals very similar to the bio-cyclic-vegan concept.
What's it all about? Unlike "bio vegan", which indicates biological process quality and vegan product quality, bio-vegan farming is starting to grow to produce organic and vegan crops. Resources that are associated with animal suffering and exploitation (eg manure, manure, slaughterhouse waste) are consistently dispensed with. In organic farming, these substances, some of which originate from conventional factory farming, are commonly used. By the way, with the bio-cyclic-vegan cultivation also the climate thinking is taken into account.
The cultivation method has been globally valid as an organic standard since the end of 2017 and is thus equivalent to EU organic certification. However, biocyclic-vegan cultivation is only just beginning; in Germany only two companies are allowed to mark their products with the "biocyclic-vegan cultivation" label.
The first products to be labeled with the term "bio-cyclic-vegan" in the supermarkets will be oranges, clementines, lemons, pomegranates, kiwis, cherry tomatoes and olive oil.
