Many foods are shipped from far away. Some people think that eating local food is more environmentally and economically. Do you think the advantages outweigh its disadvantages?
Many people believed that it would be better for our environment and economy if we used locally produced food as the main source. In my opinion, the benefits of locally grown food outweigh its drawbacks.
On the one hand, the consumption of local food might be said to have certain disadvantages. One of them is the lack of diversity and from an economic perspective, it might reduce the development of the global trade of food. Governments view food exports as an important source of foreign exchange. If the authorities just focused on using the local products, they would self-destruct their own opportunity to have another source of income. Furthermore, a free market with both domestic and international goods encourages competition between sellers, which results in lower prices for buyers.
On the other hand, compared with food transported from other regions, eating food produced locally is significantly more beneficial in economic and environmental. From an economic standpoint, the money that is spent with local farmers and growers all stays close to home and reinvested with businesses and services in our community. Because local farmers don’t have the same transportation and distribution cost as large agricultural businesses, they can retain more of the profits from their sales. This helps small farming businesses become more successful as more people purchase from them. From an environmental standpoint, by purchasing locally grown foods, you help maintain farmland and green open space in your community. Farmland attracts other types of biodiversity and gives animals, insects, and birds a place to live. Without small-scale farms, the land might otherwise be developed for industrial or commercial use. Additionally, when food is raised and grown locally, the consumer better knows how and where their food is being produced. This awareness encourages local farmers to use sustainable agriculture practices and be more accountable for safe ecological practices.
In conclusion, local food consumption could offer many environmental and economical benefits despite the controversy of unstable food exchange.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 74, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, so, in conclusion, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1819.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57975460123 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05825759477 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592024539877 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 561.6 506.74238477 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.298400611 49.4020404114 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.0 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1764705882 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.29411764706 7.06120827912 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.67935871743 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.294038308807 0.244688304435 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.096916311633 0.084324248473 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0728373107025 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200085117076 0.151304729494 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047085342062 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.