.The food travels thousands of miles from farm to consumer. Some people think it would be better to our environment and economy if people only ate local produced food. What extent do the advantages outweigh disadvantages?

It is true that nowadays foods are transported from various places to reach final customers. While some people believe that our environment and economy will benefit from just eating foods produced locally, I completely agree that actually the drawbacks of this opinion far more outweigh the advantages.

There is no doubt that just consuming local food favors local environment and economy. By consuming foods originally from the local, less long-distance transportation will be needed to carry foods travelling, and the local foods are more likely to be fresher. As a result, local transport system could be improved due to the less traffic so that people can enjoy better quality of the air as well as the public transport. On the other hand, with the decrease in the cost, the foods from local market can be less expensive, which can improve the standard of living for local inhabitants. Finally, local agricultural manufactures can earn more profit and expand with less competitors and contribute more tax for local government.

Even though some merits of this suggestion mentioned above, there are still worrying disadvantages need to be taken into consideration. Firstly, local food producers could possibly just grow one or few kinds of food to maximize profit, which can lead to a less diversified agricultural structure. In this way, farmers and groceries can be vulnerable to unfavorable natural conditions or market fluctuations. Secondly, it can be harmful to the environments if the places are not suitable for developing agriculture, such as in shortage of water or poor soil condition. Finally, a market, without enough competition, could demotivate the producers to pursue better quality of foods by investing advanced technology and innovation, and this can have negative effect on local economy.

In conclusion, although it is true that there are some good points of encouraging people to consume local foods for our environment and economy, I would argue that the negative effect can have more effect.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun competitors is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
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Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, still, well, while, in conclusion, in short, no doubt, such as, as a result, as well as, it is true, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 6.10837438424 262% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 8.36945812808 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 20.9802955665 86% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 31.9359605911 113% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.75862068966 191% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 1207.87684729 142% => OK
No of words: 322.0 242.827586207 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31055900621 5.00649968141 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 3.92707691288 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9271862647 2.71678728327 108% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 139.433497537 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546583850932 0.580463131201 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 538.2 379.143842365 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.71428571429 233% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 3.65517241379 164% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.5024630542 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.6952890949 50.4703680194 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.538461538 104.977214359 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7692307692 20.9669160288 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 14.1538461538 7.25397266985 195% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.33497536946 37% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 6.9802955665 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
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Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300093100658 0.242375264174 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.117624038798 0.0925447433944 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0651556008592 0.071462118173 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202384163605 0.151781067708 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0342365352457 0.0609392437508 56% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 12.6369458128 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 53.1260098522 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.9458128079 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 11.5310837438 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.32886699507 113% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 55.0591133005 171% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.3980295567 112% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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