LSAT 101 | Section 3 | Logical Reasoning: Q7

LR Question 7 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: In response to requests made by the dairy industry the government…

QUESTION TYPE: Most Strongly Supported

FACTS:

1. BST has some benefits, and some downsides.
2. Veterinary care can control the downsides.
3. It would cost small farms a lot more to provide this veterinary care.

ANALYSIS: All we can say for sure is that big farms will get more advantage from BST than small farms do.

Two of the wrong answer mention BST’s safety for humans. We assume hormones are dangerous, but this was not mentioned in the stimulus.

BST might be dangerous for us, or it might not be. Be careful with outside assumptions.

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1. Who knows? Maybe the government is in the pocket of big dairy farms.
2. We have no evidence for this. These are symptoms of BST, which is currently illegal. So presumably cows aren’t taking it.
3. At the present time, BST is banned, so we don’t know of any differences between big and small farms. And there were never any milk safety concerns mentioned.
4. The stimulus never said that there was any risk for humans to drink milk from BST cows.
5. CORRECT. This is true. Big farms get more milk, and a smaller increase in veterinary costs. Small farms would have to pay a lot more in veterinary fees to get the same increase in milk production.

Recap: The question begins with “In response to requests made by the dairy industry the government”. It is a Most Strongly Supported question. Learn how to master LSAT MSS questions on the LSAT Logical Reasoning question types page.