Today food travels from thousands of miles from the farm to the consumer. Some people
say that it would be better for the economy and environment if people ate food produced
from local farmers.
In the contemporary world, food travels long distances before reaching purchasers, and it is therefore
believed that consuming locally grown food would bring about many economic and
environmental benefits. Albeit some advantages, I believe that the disadvantages of this
idea would be more significant.
Consuming food growing in local areas is advantageous in several ways. First and foremost, when a product is
purchased and consumed locally, the local economy greatly benefits. More income will be
generated for those involved in the food’s production, including farmers and growers, which
will, in turn, enhance their standards of living. Eating locally grown food can also play a crucial role
in helping to protect the environment. The transportation of food around the world greatly
contributes to global warming due to the large amount of carbon emissions produced during
the process. Eating locally grown produce will help to reduce the distance that food travels,
helping to reduce the negative effects of carbon emissions which are released from vehicles
during transport.
In spite of the aforementioned benefits, I personally feel that the drawbacks need to be
considered more carefully. For example, if non-locally grown foods are purchased less often
on the market, local people will, therefore, have fewer opportunities to experience specialties
and healthy products from other regions. Furthermore, if local foods become the more
dominant products, price manipulation by local merchants can occur. Several food sellers
will make use of this opportunity to increase prices to control the market in the long term. It
will be difficult for people, especially lower-income households, to buy essential foods for
themselves, causing adverse impacts on their health.
In conclusion, I hold the belief that local food consumption, despite having economic and environmental merits, does more harm than good to people’s culinary experiences and local markets.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, so, therefore, for example, in conclusion, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1685.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 291.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.79037800687 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13022058845 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92349193063 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59793814433 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 506.74238477 100% => 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: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.1503158395 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.357142857 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7857142857 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35714285714 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 22.0 4.38176352705 502% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.323136978295 0.244688304435 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109665604836 0.084324248473 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0468515415095 0.0667982634062 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0890675367262 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0491702335833 0.056905535591 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.3 12.4159519038 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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