The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of... More telling is the difference between th

The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of... More telling is the difference between the verbs ending in "ing" and those not. canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, and packing are the actions. shipment and distribution relate to packing. If distribution was supposed to be a separate activity, they would have used "distributing of" instead of "distribution of".