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.
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 incentivise wholesome sustenance. In my opinion, funding would be a practical approach than imposing diets.
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. Primarily, 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 organically could help to reduce the price. Furthermore, this will motivate people to start agri-businesses resulting in increased food production in the country. An excellent example of this trend is with government support, and 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. It is beneficial to change dietary habits and to promote 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:
also, consequently, conversely, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, still, therefore, well, whereas, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, in my opinion, in spite of
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 : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 24.0651302605 33% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 292.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.7397260274 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11521878892 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.623287671233 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 509.4 506.74238477 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: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 38.2816454061 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.75 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.25 20.7667163134 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.5625 7.06120827912 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.178719329873 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0579731022523 0.084324248473 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553994756309 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105613772179 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0598278166579 0.056905535591 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => 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: 16.01 12.4159519038 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.1 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => 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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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.