Gozo goes Organic
Few years ago when I lived in Germany, a European law was passed that said that all products had to state whether or not they were organic. Suddenly there was all kind of organic products on the shelves. There was all kind of bio ( German for organic) stuff. There were bio-cereals, bio-fruits, bio-vegetable, bio-eggs. Yet the organic products were a just small proportion compared to all the rest, the non organic ones. What did it mean? Had everything I had been eating up to then been NOT organic??
So, when did all this happen??? When had all the normal products become not normal! I must have been asleep when it happened as when I grew up, I had always been told that the vegetable and fruit were a direct produce of the earth and therefore very healthy. Now I was being told that it was not like this and that most of the food I ate, even the one I thought was the healthiest, was actually adulterated, polluted or maybe genetically or chemically modified. It meant that all the apples, oranges, tomatoes, potatoes that I had been buying at the supermarket were actually not the genuine product. Or maybe they were, but they were definitely not as healthy as I had always thought.
But why am I talking of this.
This morning I was at the car-boot sale in Marsalforn. As usual, I bought plenty of books which I will never manage to read, but beside that, I made a little discovery. On my way back to the car I noticed a lovely French(?) lady distributing some leaflets and ask for one. It said “Organika - Gozo goes Organic!” and it’s about a new shop in St. Gorg’s Square. Who knows, it might be a place worth checking out.
