The food travels thousands of miles from farm to consumer. Some people think it would be better to our environment and economy if people only ate only locally produced food. What extent do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Essay topics:

The food travels thousands of miles from farm to consumer. Some people think it would be better to our environment and economy if people only ate only locally produced food. What extent do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Supermarkets these days are stocked with food items from different nations. It is often argued that people should consume the food grown locally in order to protect the environment and to the support local economy, while others disagree. I believe that the benefits of buying local food clearly outweigh drawbacks.

Admittedly there are some negative effects of buying food from local markets. The people will be left out with fewer choices since it is impossible to grow all kinds of food items locally. In the absence of imported eatable items, in India, for instance, such as kiwi, cheery and fig, people will not able to enjoy them anymore. Besides this, it will have an adverse impact on international trade as many firms will run out of business. Not only transportation firms, which are responsible for transferring fresh fruits and packed food from one continent to another but also the middlemen, who are responsible for stocking these items, may become bankrupt.

Despite the disadvantages above, I believe that the advantages outweigh them. It will help to decrease the carbon footprint by saving the fuel burnt by ferries and trucks to transport goods from one country to another. Adding to this, most of the imported food items, especially canned or packed items, use plastic as primary packaging material, which is the primary factor of pollution globally. Another benefit is that citizens will be eating fresh food items. Obesity is the most common among children, which is not because of eating more food but because of having sugary and preserve meals. In order to preserve the eatable for a long duration, sugar and preservatives are used. Thus, if people boycott these food items, they may have access to healthy and fresh food.

In conclusion, although there are some negative impacts of buying food locally, I opine that the positive impacts like decreasing deterioration environment and access to healthy food outweigh them.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, if, may, so, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1644.0 1615.20841683 102% => OK
No of words: 318.0 315.596192385 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16981132075 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58072470948 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559748427673 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 510.3 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4784896484 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.75 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.875 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.125 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.253014190598 0.244688304435 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0882874951588 0.084324248473 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560906463947 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16510295312 0.151304729494 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0319210250083 0.056905535591 56% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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