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Across
  1. 4. materials which extinguish various agricultural pests, including weeds and insects
  2. 9. also known as the USDA; government agency which oversees the application of safety, animal welfare and quality standards of agricultural processes
  3. 11. reproduction process in which pollen grains are carried from plant to plant
  4. 12. changing plants or animals into what we recognize as food
Down
  1. 1. optimal well-being of an animal
  2. 2. process of getting food from the farm or processing plant to the consumer orfood service facility
  3. 3. Modified Organism also known as a GMO; organism which has been modified genetically for better
  4. 5. food items grown without the use of pesticides, antibiotics or growth hormones; controlled by USDA standards
  5. 6. utilization of resources to make them last for an extended period of time
  6. 7. practice of varying successive crops in the same field
  7. 8. process by which a plant grows from a seed
  8. 10. growing the plants we harvest or raising the animals we use for food