Food travels thousands of miles from producers to consumers. Some people think that it would be better for the environment and economy if people only ate the local food produced by farmers. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Undoubtedly, one of the underlying trends today is to transport food from distant major companies, which provide competitive prices, even if it is from the opposite edge of a continent.
I am inclined to believe that, looking from the business point of view it is beneficial, although, in the grand scheme of things, long term consequences could bring more harm than good.
First of all, most of the consumers do not pay proper attention to the quality of a product or in which country it was produced. The most significant factor that people note is the price. The situation when domestic farmers can not compete with foreign ones is quite common, and there are a lot of factors which have a crucial influence on it. For instance, the area of arable lands is insufficient or they are just not fertile enough. It causes that farmers have to put more effort and money to collect their harvest, so this the reason why the overall price of the product will be higher.
Also, the trend nowadays is towards people dumping prices to have a more secure position on the market, and one way to achieve it is to make worse quality products. The consumers, who are seduced by colourful and attractive adverts, had not read the product composition. A few years ago, the newspapers have brought information about Chinese honey, which was flooding the American market. Instead of pure honey, it was a mixture of the rice-sugar syrup, which was undetectable in laboratory tests. After the government intervention (they legislated new law and modernised laboratory tests) the problem was solved.
Contrary to that, the advocates of transporting food from distant areas argue that some countries have better possibilities to produce a sufficient number of particular products so people should just accept it and import it willingly. Moreover, they also claim that there are worldwide trade unions, which provide well-known and restricted provisions defining the quality so all fears are unreasonable.
To conclude, I truly believe that people should spend more money on local products to boost the national economy, even though the market competition is beneficial so if the quality of transported goods is as good or even better as the domestic one they should have equal law to locate their products in the market.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, look, moreover, so, well, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1937.0 1615.20841683 120% => OK
No of words: 383.0 315.596192385 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05744125326 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73595856293 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 176.041082164 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574412532637 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 603.0 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => 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: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.8559683917 49.4020404114 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.133333333 106.682146367 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5333333333 20.7667163134 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 7.06120827912 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.115287963929 0.244688304435 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0365155820282 0.084324248473 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0462758111966 0.0667982634062 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0601858428627 0.151304729494 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0372497978844 0.056905535591 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.0946893788 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.21 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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