A pet food company recalled 4 million pounds of pet food in response to complaints that pets that had consumed the food experienced vomiting, lethargy, and other signs of illness. After the recall, the pet food company tested samples from the recalled food and determined that all chemicals found in the food were chemicals that are approved for use in pet food. Thus, the recalled food was not responsible for these symptoms, and the company should not devote further resources to the investigation.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument made by the author on not investing anymore resources to investigate the cause is flawed and is totally unwarranted. Four million pounds of pet food sold by the company definitely reached a large number of pet owners, who might have been feeding it to the pets. It's the social responsibility of any company to give continuous support to its consumers. Also, not to mention, a company that sells such large amount of pet food has it's own existence at stake.
The assumption made here is that, since the food comprises of the allowed components, it's not the reason for the illness. It's never mentioned that the combination of food may create such issues. To check if the pet owners were giving anything alongside the pet food, would have given a better picture. Such concoction of different foods could be lethal to any living beings. We have examples of food poisoning and even drug combinations to be fatal to humans. The author fails to consider the fact that it could be water contamination that's behind such illness. Humans could be capable of withstanding the intake of certain amount of chlorinated water, while pets might be susceptible to such illness. Even the weather could be a reason to such sickness, or the rise of certain bacterial infection or some kind of virus, or even the pollen flying around in a particular season. We know such instances of aviary virus causing epidemics in certain areas. Yet again, the author doesn't mention the demographics of the occurrence of the illness. It might have been local to a certain region; recalling 4 million pounds of food for an incidence which is contained in a city may be bad for the company, if the food recalled is from all of it's customers. Investing more on figuring out the cause is tantamount to the benefit to the pets and the owners and the business.
The author doesn't consider the ethics behind the continuity of the investigation. Just because it's pet food, doesn't mean the business can turn to other more important things. Every life is important and if anyone has involvement in impacting any life, one has to be more responsible. Worth mentioning, if such incident continues to occur due to the negligence of the company, it may soon be slapped by lawsuit by the consumers for failing to declare the nuances of the usability of the pet food. Eventually, it'll lead the company to it's doomsday.
Hence, considering all such aspects in the statement would have bolstered it as an argument and helped to maintain a strong ground on it's veracity and dependability.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- ??? minimum 3 arguments wanted.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 443 350
No. of Characters: 2077 1500
No. of Different Words: 217 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.588 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.688 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.655 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.136 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.092 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.409 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.277 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.432 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.062 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 202, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... sold by the company definitely reached a large number of pet owners, who might have been feeding...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 276, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: It's; It is
...might have been feeding it to the pets. Its the social responsibility of any compan...
^^^
Line 2, column 51, Rule ID: COMPRISES_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprises' or 'consists of'?
Suggestion: comprises; consists of
...ption made here is that, since the food comprises of the allowed components, its not the rea...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 88, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...od comprises of the allowed components, its not the reason for the illness. Its nev...
^^^
Line 2, column 536, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...ct that it could be water contamination thats behind such illness. Humans could be ca...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 976, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...in certain areas. Yet again, the author doesnt mention the demographics of the occurre...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 13, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...e owners and the business. The author doesnt consider the ethics behind the continui...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 110, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...vestigation. Just because its pet food, doesnt mean the business can turn to other mor...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, may, so, while, as to, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2112.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 439.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.81093394077 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74544838474 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501138952164 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 666.9 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.2227710684 57.8364921388 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9545454545 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.54545454545 5.70786347227 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321127844252 0.218282227539 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0946956602579 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0919005555712 0.0701772020484 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183017494456 0.128457276422 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112280194867 0.0628817314937 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.3799401198 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.3550499002 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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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.