Farm to Plate Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. food products raised for human consumption without additives and are minimally processed; no USDA standards
  2. 6. growing the plants we harvest or raising the animals we use for food
  3. 10. covering the ground with compost to prevent evaporation or erosion
  4. 13. changing plants or animals into what we recognize as food
  5. 15. food items grown without the use of pesticides, antibiotics or growth hormones; controlled by USDA standards
  6. 16. process of getting food from the farm or processing plant to the consumer or food service facility
  7. 18. method of planting multiple crops on one piece of land
  8. 19. getting food ready to eat
  9. 21. public healthy agency accountable for food safety
  10. 23. breeding plants of animals for specific traits
  11. 24. giving manufacturers exclusive rights to a process, design or new invention
  12. 25. process by which a plant grows from a seed
  13. 26. government agency which oversees the application of safety, animal welfare and quality standards of agricultural processes
  14. 27. antibiotics which have not completely left the animals’ system before slaughter
  15. 28. documented steps which must be followed in the food industry to ensure proper cleaning of product contact and non-contact surfaces
Down
  1. 1. practices involving growing two or more crops in the same field
  2. 3. plants which were grown in the past and have been bred to be adapted to a specific environment
  3. 4. remove from or to reduce the size of a herd
  4. 5. reproduction process in which pollen grains are carried from plant to plant
  5. 7. keep in confinement or to keep isolated
  6. 8. amount of time it takes for an antibiotic to leave an animal’s system
  7. 9. practice of varying successive crops in the same field
  8. 11. organism which has been modified genetically for better quality
  9. 12. infectious diseases of animals which can be transferred to humans
  10. 14. optimal well-being of an animal
  11. 17. utilization of resources to make them last for an extended period of time
  12. 19. materials which extinguish various agricultural pests, including weeds and insects
  13. 20. a zoonotic prion disease characterized by tiny holes in the brain
  14. 22. government agency which monitors the production and distribution of all food products except meat and poultry