{"id":71753,"date":"2024-11-01T20:45:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/?p=71753"},"modified":"2024-11-01T20:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:45:03","slug":"organic-food-is-healthy-but-is-it-tasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/short-stories-en\/organic-food-is-healthy-but-is-it-tasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic food is healthy, but is it tasty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 2nd November 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Saturday 19 October, ECO123 was invited to take part in an event for journalists, organised by Agrobio (1), under the scope of a European programme, with its main aim being to provide a lunch made from organic foodstuffs for us to sample and appreciate. In addition, we visited a street market selling organic products and an organic supermarket. This is an increasingly important subject in Portugal, considering that, at this moment in time, 27.7% of farmland in Portugal is already given over to organic production. 70% of this land is used for grazing, and therefore linked to livestock farming; after this, in order of magnitude, the rest of the land consists of olive groves, vineyards, vegetable crops and fruit orchards.<\/p>\n

The morning began with a visit to the Agrobio street market in the company of Jaime Ferreira, the president of Agrobio and two of his collaborators. This market is held every Saturday in the square of the Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon. The producers attending this market come from the capital\u2019s suburban region, most notably from the areas around Sobral de Monte Agra\u00e7o, Alcochete and Caldas da Rainha. The produce that they sell is usually seasonal in nature, consisting essentially of fruit and vegetables, but some producers choose to complement their products with other homemade goods, such as biscuits, bread and cheese. The aim is to present stalls selling a range of different products, so that the producers operate a resale system among themselves in order to improve what they each offer to their customers. When I spoke to some of the producers, their dedication and passion for this business was clear to see, in the sense that not only does it provide them with a livelihood, but it is also something that they engage in with a sense of mission. As far as the consumers are concerned, they are people of all ages from a variety of origins, but they tend to come to the market in separate waves: normally, the older people appear early on, followed by the families, and then, finally, the younger customers<\/p>\n

After this, we went to Rua Latino Coelho, also in Lisbon, to visit the organic food market of Mios\u00f3tis (2). This market, which corresponds, in appearance, to a reasonable-sized supermarket, has all kinds of products, especially food, but also other articles that a family might need. In particular, there is a wide variety of ready-made foodstuffs, which have become much more popular since the COVID outbreak.<\/p>\n