QUESTION TEXT: Food columnist: Only 2 percent of imported…
QUESTION TYPE: Argument Evaluation
CONCLUSION: Domestic seafood is more likely to be safe to eat than imported seafood.
REASONING: Most imported seafood (98%) is not subjected to health safety inspections.
ANALYSIS: The author has given us a reason why imported seafood might be unsafe. But we don’t know enough about domestic seafood to know if it is any safer – it could be subjected to even lower rates of health safety inspections!.
To evaluate the argument, we need to be able to compare the two types of seafood.
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- This sounds relevant, but remember that we don’t know anything about domestic seafood. So knowing more about health inspections doesn’t help us.
- This answer does not draw a distinction between domestic and imported seafood. Knowing the health risks is useless to us if we still can’t compare the two.
- Completely irrelevant. Non-seafood imports have nothing to do with whether or not domestic seafood would be safer than imported seafood.
- Also completely irrelevant, for the same reason as answer C.
- CORRECT. Knowing the health inspection rate of domestic seafood allows us to compare the two and actually determine whether domestic is safer than imported.
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