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In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:These vegetables and fruits are also grown and harvested within their suitable growing season . Sentence 2:Thus , seasonal food farming does not require energy intensive greenhouse production , extensive irrigation , plastic packaging and long - distance transport from importing non-regional foods , and other environmental stressors .
Output:
thus