Food Supply Chain

3. Preparing the food to be safe and ready to eat.
5. Measures the impact the food makes on the planet by measuring the food miles.
12. How far food travels from the processor to the store. Takes into consideration how the food is moved.
15. Large scale production of crops and livestock.
16. The movement of food from processing plants to the store.
17. Growing just enough food for yourself, family, and any livestock.
18. Meeting the needs of the present while still being able to meet needs in the future.

1. Using large amounts of land, resources, and machinery to grow food.
2. Having a variety of plants and animals in an area.
4. When farmers utilize local resources (especially waste products) to grow and maintain their crops.
6. A heat-treatment process that kills harmful bacteria, parasites, and pathogens in food and beverages.
7. Crops grown to put nutrients back in the soil and displace the weeds.
8. Only growing one type of crop.
9. Crop farmers, animal farmers, and food manufacturers that produce raw material for food.
10. Weeds that can not be killed by a normal herbicide.
11. Farming that uses natural products, like compost, to fertilize crops instead of using chemical fertilizers.
13. How food gets from the farmer to the grocery store.
14. Whoever eats or uses the raw materials and food produced.