With a growing world population, one of the most pressing issues is that of feeding such a large number of people. Some people think that GM foods offer a viable solution to this problem.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
There is no doubt that providing food to an ever-growing population is the biggest challenge for today and some people believe that genetically modified foods can provide a solution to this issue. I totally disagree with this assertion.
Undoubtedly, GM foods have their benefits. Most important of them all is that genetically modified foods can be made available throughout the year. For instance, fruits which would be available in winter can be eaten in summer and vice versa. I am very fond of mangoes which are usually available at the peak of summer. With the genetic modification technology, I can have them during any season.
Nevertheless, the negative impact of GM foods far outweigh the benefits. For example, by genetically modifying food, the DNA structure is altered and we are not sure of its health impact on humans and animals alike. According to recent research, GM foods were tested against natural foods and it was found that the former had 40% less nutritional content. Moreover, the research further stated that people were more prone to allergies by consuming artificial foods.
Furthermore, GM foods are a threat to the farming industry and unemployment. Corporations are investing heavily in growing artificial foods indoors to muster huge profits. It has been discovered that genetically modified fruits and vegetables can be grown indoors using artificial light and chemical speed process which cuts the time to grow them by half. This has led farmers to abandon farming and their lands and recent news report that many farmers have done suicide in India due to GM crops. Therefore, it can be said that GM foods have threatened the livelihood of farmers in India who constitute around 40% of the population of 1.2 billion people.
In conclusion, genetically modified foods are a substantial threat to individuals and society. Encouragement of these foods put the health of people at risk and creates unemployment and other problems for the farming industry.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, if, moreover, nevertheless, so, therefore, for example, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 322.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2049689441 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23607819155 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84606954912 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568322981366 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 506.74238477 101% => 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: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.1456047573 49.4020404114 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.1111111111 106.682146367 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8888888889 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.88888888889 7.06120827912 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164069651662 0.244688304435 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0575401283974 0.084324248473 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0406725444121 0.0667982634062 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101107641215 0.151304729494 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04692392034 0.056905535591 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.