Omnivore's Dilemma Vocab

Omnivore

An animal or person that eat food of both plant and animal origin

Food Chain

The series of process by which food is grown or produced, sold, and eventually consumed

Organic

Produced without the use of chemical fertilizer, pesticides, or other agents

Sustainable

Able to maintain at certain rate or level

Processed foods

A food changed from its natural form in any way

Yield

Produce or provide (a natural, agricultural, or industrial product).

GMO food

Food from a genetically modified organism

Bonanza

A situation or event that creates a sudden increase in wealthy, good future, or profit

Subsidy

A sum of money grated by the government or a public body to assist and industry or business that the price of a community or service may remain lower competitive

Evolved

Develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form

Rumen

The first stomach of a ruminant, which receives food or cud form the esophagus, partly digest it with the aid of bacteria and passes it to the reticulum

Ruminats

An even-toed ungulate mammal that chews that cub regurgitated from its rumen, the ruminants comprised of cattle,sheep,antelopes,deer,giraffes, and there relatives

Fermentation

Chemical process by which molecules such as glucose ar broken down anaerobically

Ecological System

A dynamic, interacting unit of biological communities and there physical surroundings, crucial for functions like water cycling, soil building, and oxygen productions

Feed lots

Facilitates where livestock, mainly cattle, are confided in small areas and feed high-energy diets to fatten them quickly before slaughter

Tallow

A hard fatty substance made from rendered animal fat

Slaughterhouse

A place where animals are slaughter for food

Forage

A person or animal that searches widely for food or provisions

Bloat

Make or become swollen with fluid or gas

Acidosis

To much acid in the rumen

Delineate

To describe or portray something precisely

Flavonoid (89) 

A pigment that is found in plants and consumed by (eaten by) humans

Amputation (90)

the surgical removal of a limb

Epidemic (93)

- the rapid, or quick, spread of something 

Ethanol (93)

- a colorless and flammable liquid that is made from the fermentation (breakdown) of sugars, otherwise known as alcohol

Gluttons (96)

- an excessively (hugely) greedy eater

Gorge (98)

- to quickly fill oneself with food

Monoculture (133)

- the practice of growing one type of crop in a field at a time

Industrial (133)

- a system that depends heavily on manufacturing goods, rather than farming or making things by hand

Automated (149)

-  the name for the ability to run without human control

Barracks (149)

- the building that is meant to house a group of people

Atrazine (155)

- a type of herbicide used to control grass or weeds

Herbicide (155)

- the name for a toxic substance meant to destroy unwanted vegetation