With a growing population many people believe that we should focus on producing more GM genetically modified foods What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing this

Regarding the recent population explosion worldwide, a segment of society opines that producing genetically modified food should be given more attention. This essay will further discuss both its existential benefits and drawbacks with appropriate examples.

GM technology is potentially a paradigm shift for farmers as it may help ensure the world’s food security. With limited cultivable land and the challenge of feeding over 7.5 billion people around the world, biotechnology should be part of the solution as we have to focus on intensifying rather than expanding farming. To exemplify, some engineered crops produced greater yields compared to their non-GM counterparts, while others are nutritionally enhanced. Taking oilseeds that have been modified to produce omega 3 fatty acids as a prominent example. Supposing this had not been introduced to indigenous farmers settling in mountainous regions in Vietnam a decade ago, they would not have stopped suffering from mass malnutrition due to lack of fish oil in their daily diets.

Having said that, some adverse effects of producing and consuming bioengineered food on mankind have been proposed by those who are against this kind of food. To be more specific, genetically engineered foods are created by inserting foreign genes into an organism, which may result in allergic reaction. This happens when a certain protein or allergen present in GM crops enters the body and stimulates an immune system. Besides, the collapse of some species, especially insectivores that we rely upon, is thought to be attributable to engineered crops. Providing BT eggplants had not been introduced to Vietnamese farmers in 2010, causing the plummet in the numbers of local insects, those people would not suffer from lack of protein in their diets now. Their source of protein was mainly from eating birds such as sparrows, which had not been able to thrive until the introduction of BT crops which killed thousands of insects that they fed on.

To conclude, biotechnology should go through some thorough research in order to help meet the growing demand for food. This is because alongside some noticeable merits like nutrition enhancement or better yields, there are also some side effects when those are eaten by people as well as food chain disruption.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, if, may, regarding, so, well, while, kind of, such as, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1948.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 364.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35164835165 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81981640705 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 176.041082164 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.629120879121 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8365849046 49.4020404114 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.866666667 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2666666667 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 7.06120827912 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24224214086 0.244688304435 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07541562505 0.084324248473 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0542173738854 0.0667982634062 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15167922232 0.151304729494 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0477444991019 0.056905535591 84% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.03 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 78.4519038076 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => 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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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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