Some people say that governments should subsidise fruit and vegetables to make healthy food cheaper. Others say it is better to tax unhealthy food
Discuss both these views and give your own opinions.
Give reasons and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experiences.
In spite of the emphasis placed on encouraging healthy dietary habits, the debate still exists on whether governments should subsidise fruit and vegetables or tax unhealthy food to incentivize wholesome sustenance. In my opinion, subsidising would be an effective approach than taxing foods.
Admittedly, taxing could increase the price of unhealthy foods. As a result, the middle and low-income class would gradually decrease the consumption of fast and processed food due to increased price tags. Especially, fast food addiction of both youngsters and adults could mitigate by introducing high price. Moreover, with high tax for ingredients and production, producers also getting discouraged due to decreased revenue. For instance, when there is no profit in the fast-food market, entrepreneurs would not invest and consequently, governments can easily control the industry. If there were no such control, it would be exceedingly hard to reduce the unwholesome eating customs of the mass.
However, one of the main reasons why people are distracting from healthy and organic food is the excessively high price. Whereas, compared to organic food, processed food is far cheaper. Therefore, subsidising farmers to grow fruit and vegetables in an organic way could help to reduce the price. Furthermore, this will motivate people to start agri-businesses resulting in increased food production in the country. A good example of this trend is with government support, youth are now starting cultivating the increased amount of lands in most of developing countries. Conversely, this helps to reduce healthcare expenditures as well as improving the living quality of the country. As a matter of fact, it is beneficial to change dietary habits and promoting sustainable businesses than suppressing people with tax.
In conclusion, although taxation could reduce processed food consumption, I believe it is more advantageous to encourage organic farming by providing subsidies.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 24.0651302605 33% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1689.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.6677852349 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11903861371 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607382550336 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 506.74238477 101% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2348438126 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.5625 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.625 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.875 7.06120827912 182% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174824119273 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0572504876475 0.084324248473 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.047703473592 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103398594415 0.151304729494 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.063197946553 0.056905535591 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.61 12.4159519038 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.77 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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