Today much of the food people eat gets transported from farms that are thousands of miles away. Some people believe it would be better for the environment and the economy if people only consumed food produced by local farmers. Would the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Due to the shortage of fertile land and different topography and climate prevailing across the global, countries import food from distant places. Whether food grown locally is better for the countries and environment? This conundrum is deliberated in the essay below.
It’s true that locally grown fruits and vegetables from regional farms are fresh and cheaper than items procured from far away distances. Primarily, the economy can avoid the transportation cost levied on the items purchased from far-off places, which reduces the prices of the daily food items. Furthermore, it provides local people source of income from selling home grown food items. Also, with bring in food items from other nations, the cargo is freighted by ships and planes. These modes of transportation use fuel to transport food items, which leads to greenhouse gas emissions.
However, the above argument has a flip side, due to varied temperate zones across the world, it is extremely difficult to produce all kinds of food items. Some plants need certain type of climate and soil to produce fruits and flowers, so it would practically impossible for desserts to grow tropical mangoes. To offer variety and keep up nutrition of the people, governments may have to rely on trading goods from other nations. With advancement in science and technology, even if the food items are grown in green houses and in labs, it will be an expensive affair to produce foodstuff at an affordable price. Also, to create the ideal temperature and to mass produce, farmers may use chemicals to convert an arid land into a fertile land, thus causing more environmental damage than getting it imported.
Based on the above discussion, it is would worth noting that one needs to strike a balance between reducing the carbon footprint and economic benefit that country can achieve.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...nomic benefit that country can achieve.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, may, so, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1554.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16279069767 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63786120151 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627906976744 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 506.74238477 94% => 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: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.0044336824 49.4020404114 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.0 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.21428571429 7.06120827912 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264296721064 0.244688304435 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0838684936264 0.084324248473 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0557585040135 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131589436118 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0639184774065 0.056905535591 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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