Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Mark Nagel <activism98201@verizon.net>]

As I understand it, and per the dictionary, processed means 
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/processed):

1.  To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure: processing newly 
arrived immigrants; process an order.
2. To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process: process 
ore to obtain minerals. 

I spent many years in the corporate sector and can state that "process" 
matches the above definition.  But as we're talking agricultural application 
I wouldn't have any problem (even though it would present an inconsistency in 
the literal sense) with a different definition.

Anyone out there able to provide a solid reference to the contrary?


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


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From: Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>

[snip]

The word 'processed' (as I understand it) when applied to
foods (in recent, modern times) generally means 'processed
in a factory and made into a food far removed from its
original form'.  This would *not* include threshing grain or
other processes easily accomplished at home without special
machinery.  

[snip]