Demeter International

Demeter is a registered trademark, sold under the bio-dynamically generated based on anthroposophic principles products. Also protected is the precursor Biodyn, which means in conversion to Demeter. The name derives from the Greek mother and fertility goddess Demeter.

The product range of Demeter includes more than 3,500 food and cosmetics and fashion items, which are mainly sold in health food stores and health food stores.

Brand

The symbol has been used since 1928. The use of the Demeter logo was - unlike labels such as organic or eco, which were subjected to 1992 no regulation - controlled since its inception. It may only be used by contractors who hold throughout the cultivation and processing process to the guidelines of the Demeter -Bund. As the only organic association Demeter requires its contractors that they need to keep animals on their farms. The guidelines now meet the requirements of state and conducted annually EC organic certification under the EU eco-regulation, however, go into some aspects beyond. Spiritual and homeopathy similar methods belong to Demeter agriculture.

Owner of the Demeter brand in Germany and many other countries is the " Research Foundation for Biodynamic farming", which is also the oldest organization for biodynamic and organic farming in Germany at the same time.

Background

The basis of biodynamic agriculture and thus the practice of Demeter farms is the anthroposophical thought and methodology of Rudolf Steiner, which he calls " humanities Foundations for agriculture ", developed from 1924. It claims not only to have the material substances and the physical processes of nature, but also supernatural, cosmic forces as design factors in mind. The promotion of a healthy interaction between humans, animals and plants and earth and the cosmos is at the center. The production of uncontaminated food is not the first goal but a consequence.

Due to a poor 2007 harvest processing plants was first allowed a short-term addition of up to 30 percent grain in the history of the association, which was not produced bio-dynamically, but the EU-Eco - regulation corresponded.