Title: Unit 3 Glossary
Course: WVA 101 Local Food and Cuisine > Section: WVA 101 Local Food and Cuisine

Unit 3 Glossary

Terms

Term | Definitions
Agriculture | The science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock. Includes farming; the production of crops, livestock, and/ or poultry.
Food Processing | Transformation of raw ingredients into food, or of food into other forms. Food processing typically takes clean, harvested crops or butchered animal products and uses these to produce attractive, ...
Local Food Sourcing | Relating to or applicable to a city, town, or district instead of a larger land mass area. Local Food is produced within approximately a 300 miles radius of where the consumer lives. Food can also ...
Sustainable Food System | Food system produced through processes that are healthy for consumers, stakeholders, and animals. Environmentally humane practices for workers and animals while providing equitable wages to the fa ...