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?
<p style="white-space: normal;">Nowadays, supermarkets are stocked with food products from around the world. Some individuals are of the opinion that this imported food has detrimental effect on our economy and culture and it would be better if people ate only the local produce. This essay provides empirical evidences showing that the disadvantages of imported food outweigh the advantages.</p><p style="white-space: normal;">To begin with, on the positive side, first of all transporting food over a long distance increases the choices by providing world wide variety of food. In other words, a person can enjoy range of fruits and vegetables from all parts of the world. For example, about ten years ago, kiwi fruit was unknown to Indians, which is from New Zealand. But, now it has a place on every Indian fruit stand. Secondly, many people get employment in this field, as small farmers have a chance to expand globally and it increases the overall economy of the country. Finally, it helps in developing good relations between countries, which helps in international cooperation and peace. Eventually, when countries are dependent upon one another’s economic success, then conflicts are less likely to happen.</p><p style="white-space: normal;">On the other hand, importing food can have a negative effect on local culture. This can be seen in countries such as Japan where imported food has become more popular than traditional, local produce, eroding people’s understanding of their own food traditions. Although some claim that this is a natural part of economic development, in an increasingly global world, paradoxically any loss of regional culture is detrimental. A second major reason to reduce imports is the environmental cost. To enumerate, currently, many food imports such as fruits, are transported thousands of miles by road, sea and air, making the produce more expensive to buy and increasing pollution from exhausted fumes. Despite the fact that trade in food exports has existed for many years, the reduction would bring significant financial and environmental gains.</p><p style="white-space: normal;">In the light of these facts one can conclude that, eating locally produced food would bring environmental benefits. It would also benefit the local economy because, in time, people would prosper commercially as the demand for local and regional produce would remain high withstanding the competition from overseas.</p>
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, then, for example, such as, first of all, in other words, to begin with, 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: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2126.0 1615.20841683 132% => OK
No of words: 372.0 315.596192385 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71505376344 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.7580722076 2.80592935109 134% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 176.041082164 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.612903225806 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 650.7 506.74238477 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.4398383625 49.4020404114 155% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.733333333 106.682146367 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8 20.7667163134 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.53333333333 7.06120827912 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 1.0 4.38176352705 23% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273852614236 0.244688304435 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0878316192782 0.084324248473 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0978172079794 0.0667982634062 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.273852614236 0.151304729494 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.056905535591 0% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 13.0946893788 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.19 12.4159519038 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.54 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 78.4519038076 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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