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