Many people are trying to reduce the amount of meat that they eat, but they still crave meat products. Scientists have recently developed methods to create simulated meats from vegetable protein that have the appearance, taste, and texture of real meat to satisfy that demand. These products promise to make our food better for the environment, healthier, and safer.
First of all, simulated meat is better for the environment. Raising livestock to produce meat is a massive industry that requires large amounts of water and land, and rainforest is often cut down to create more grazing land. The meat industry also generates huge amounts of air and water pollution. Simulated meats are made from plants and fungi; which use less land and other resources and generate less pollution.
Second, simulated meat is much healthier for people than consuming meat and meat products. Experts recommend that people eat less meat because it contains more unhealthy fats than vegetables, and eating meat products also raises the chances of developing some types of cancer. Vegetables also contain more vitamins and minerals than meat and higher amounts of dietary fiber and healthy carbohydrates that meat cannot provide. Since simulated meats are made entirely from vegetables and other plant products, they are healthier.
Finally, simulated meats are much safer for people to eat because there is a lower chance of them being contaminated with bacteria. Animals naturally contain more harmful bacteria in their bodies than plants do, and those bacteria can be transferred to the people that eat them, causing illness. Simulated meats contain far fewer bacteria, and the ingredients are cooked thoroughly in the process of making them, so they are much safer to eat.
The reading passage claims that simulated meat would make our food better for the environment and people and presents several evidences that seem to uphold the claim. However, the lecture counterpoints that even if the product fulfills all the requirements, it is still unclear whether it would be as beneficial as mentioned in the reading passage. The reasons mentioned in the lecture will be elaborated in more detail below.
First of all, the lecture refutes the point made in the reading passage, which contends that simulated meat is better for the environment, by commenting that even if the product does require less land and provide less pollution, it still has negative consequences. Plant crops are grown with chemical fertilizers and pesticides which are detrimental to the environment. Also, rainforests are not cut down only with the sole purpose of raising livestock. People pursue such action to also exploit the land for farm crops.
Second, while the reading passage asserts that simulated meat is much healthier for people than consuming meat and meat products, the lecture disapproves this assertion by claiming that even though meat tend to have more fat, it also contains nutrients that are not found in vegetables. Also, it is unreasonable to maintain that simulated meat is healthier because it goes through multiple chemical processes such as inserting large amount of oil and sodium to mimic the taste of meat.
Last but not least, the reading passage contends that simulated meat is much safer because there is a lower chance of being contaminated with bacteria. However, the lecture counterpoints this evidence by mentioning that such claim is only partially true and is not entirely reasonable. Regarding the issue of allergic reations, while people can easily identify the origin of allergic reaction when consuming meat, it is extremely difficult to distinguish the reason to allergic reations in the case of simulated meat. Because people do not know all the ingredients that have been included in the product, they can easily show unexpected allergic reactions.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, regarding, second, so, still, while, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 22.412803532 103% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1762.0 1373.03311258 128% => OK
No of words: 335.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25970149254 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74129010122 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528358208955 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 540.0 419.366225166 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.7879568994 49.2860985944 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.538461538 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7692307692 21.698381199 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.84615384615 7.06452816374 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277166157289 0.272083759551 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0876929368009 0.0996497079465 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0844497197822 0.0662205650399 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170164424059 0.162205337803 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0954335065933 0.0443174109184 215% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.2367328918 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.7273730684 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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