Today many countries import food from different parts of the world. Is this a positive or negative development?
It is true that with the aid of transportation advancements, It is now possible for many nations to import food from all over the world. While the volume of such imports has increased over the recent years, I would argue that this trend has more disadvantages than advantages.
On the one hand, it is undeniable that there are some positive aspects of importing food. Many countries need to import food in order to feed their population. Their land may be poor for growing crops, with the deserts or mountainous regions. Another factor that drives countries to import food is climate, in the case of prolonged droughts and excessive cold. Other countries, however, simply import food to satisfy the tastes of consumers. It is, for example, pleasant to eat tropical fruit or eat rice during a European cold winter, even though such food has to be imported from thousands of miles away.
On the other hand, considering the ecological crisis facing the world today, the arguments against large-scale of imports food are overwhelming. Firstly, in order to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. Countries need to seek to limit the number of food miles required to provide their people with a healthier diet. Dependence on freight services to transport food all over the world simply increases global warming. Secondly, food which has to be imported is not fresh. It is often treated with chemical preservatives or genetically modified in order to extend its shelf life. This is damaging in terms of health and the environment.
In conclusion, I believe that the trend towards the imports of a large amount of food is, despite its advantages, a negative trend which is contributing to environmental degradation.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1356.0 1615.20841683 84% => OK
No of words: 266.0 315.596192385 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0977443609 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66893994535 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 156.0 176.041082164 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.586466165414 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 407.7 506.74238477 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.406998971 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.4 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7333333333 20.7667163134 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.46666666667 7.06120827912 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340853965865 0.244688304435 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113137890217 0.084324248473 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0816055448997 0.0667982634062 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196681953245 0.151304729494 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0429091547701 0.056905535591 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 13.0946893788 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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