Many foods are shipped from far away. Some people think that eating local food is better environmentally and economically. Do you think the advantages outweigh its disadvantages?
Food is being widely exported worldwide to meet the global demand. While this can boost the national economy quickly, especially for developing countries, personally, I assume that this is not a sustainable approach, in terms of the environment and economy. For that, in my perspective, the downsides of eating foreign foods outweigh the benefits.
On the one hand, imported foods are becoming more ubiquitous all over the world as they are a better supplier. The proliferation of global population and the broadening of different service sectors are creating food crisis in many places, especially in developed countries. Meanwhile, in developing countries where agriculture is the main industry, by exporting food to other markets, this will create more jobs, which, in turn, prospers the domestic economy. For instance, food exporting accounts for over 15% of Vietnam’s GDP, helping its economy grow rapidly since the end of the trade ban of 1986. Furthermore, not only does this help those aforementioned countries to thrive, it also helps developed countries to alleviate food shortage and focus on other fields more.
On the other hand, food that is shipped from far away needs more pesticide to keep it fresh for a longer time. Eating this kind of food is detrimental to health because of chemicals residue, in the long term, this will decrease the populace’s wellbeing. A survey conducted by WHO concluded that, those who eat seasonal food that is manufactured by local farmer are less prone to cancer, reproductive dysfunction, etc. Moreover, food miles is producing a large amount of carbon footprint and as a result, becoming one of the main factors attributes to climate change. As global warming worsen, the economy will be weakened, countries will have to spend a substantial amount of money to ease the environmental problem, and the national general wellbeing will drop dramatically.
In conclusion, the advantages that imported food brings is undeniable, however, to achieve a sustainable development both economically and environmentally, local food is clearly a better approach.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1786.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 331.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39577039275 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08206855766 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583081570997 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5843163635 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.571428571 106.682146367 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6428571429 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0714285714 7.06120827912 143% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226069537354 0.244688304435 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0825420052058 0.084324248473 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053066799228 0.0667982634062 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143753265255 0.151304729494 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0345307561208 0.056905535591 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.45 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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