To meet the growing need for food to support an increasing population, a country should make use of edible insects as a food source. However, some people believe that insects are not only unhealthy but harvesting them will also negatively affect nature. What are the benefits and drawbacks of eating insects?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
In today's era, a nation should use edible insects as a food source to meet the demand for food in order to support overpopulation, while some people are of the opinion that consuming insects are harmful to human health as well as detrimental to the nature. Both advantages and downsides of this behaviour will be thoroughly discussed in this essay.
On the one hand, utilizing insect resources for food can bring out numerous benefits. To begin with, it can solve the issue of food products deficiency. It is an evident fact that insect is the group of creatures which has the biggest population in our planet, therefore they are believed to be infinited. Thus, people can consume them as a replacement for ordinary food products such as beef, chicken or fish. Moreover, the authorities can exert this unlimited source to make profits. By selling insects as an usual products in market places, they are able to create not only more choices for consumers but also wider job opportunities for those who are interest in marketing using insects.
On the other hand, using edible insects can cause a variety of adverse consequences. First and foremost, these species are mostly unhealthy and noxious. According to some specialists, a wide range of insects including spiders or centipedes contain an enormous amount of toxic which can be extremely harmful to human. Besides, it is undeniable that the nutrition in a raw of insect is absolutely inferior to that of ordinary meat, for example, pork. Furthurmore, overusing insects for food can contribute negative influences to the crops. For instance, if farmers eat earth worm, their vegetable may be damaged due to the invasion of other species.
To conclude, a whole lot of advantages as well as disadvantages of utilizing edible insects has been indicated. From my perspective, i believe that the drawbacks of this notion overshadow its benefits.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 509, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
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Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'product'?
Suggestion: product
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Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
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Message: Did you mean 'interested'?
Suggestion: interested
...der job opportunities for those who are interest in marketing using insects. On the o...
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Message: Use simply 'lot'.
Suggestion: lot
...ion of other species. To conclude, a whole lot of advantages as well as disadvantages ...
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Message: Did you mean 'I'?
Suggestion: I
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, such as, as well as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1590.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 313.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07987220447 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84782303713 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594249201278 0.561755894193 106% => 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: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.377547078 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.375 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5625 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06120827912 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.362611041896 0.244688304435 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103311512123 0.084324248473 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0770329284077 0.0667982634062 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203817760075 0.151304729494 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0795622483646 0.056905535591 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.0946893788 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 509, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
... to make profits. By selling insects as an usual products in market places, they a...
^^
Line 3, column 518, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'product'?
Suggestion: product
...profits. By selling insects as an usual products in market places, they are able to crea...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 648, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
... also wider job opportunities for those who are interest in marketing using insects. ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 656, Rule ID: BE_INTEREST_IN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'interested'?
Suggestion: interested
...der job opportunities for those who are interest in marketing using insects. On the o...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 16, Rule ID: WHOLE_LOT[1]
Message: Use simply 'lot'.
Suggestion: lot
...ion of other species. To conclude, a whole lot of advantages as well as disadvantages ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 134, Rule ID: I_LOWERCASE[2]
Message: Did you mean 'I'?
Suggestion: I
...as been indicated. From my perspective, i believe that the drawbacks of this noti...
^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, such as, as well as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1590.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 313.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07987220447 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84782303713 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594249201278 0.561755894193 106% => 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: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.377547078 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.375 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5625 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0 7.06120827912 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.362611041896 0.244688304435 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103311512123 0.084324248473 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0770329284077 0.0667982634062 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203817760075 0.151304729494 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0795622483646 0.056905535591 140% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.0946893788 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 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.