In the letter to the editor, it is stated that the farmers are deliberately inflating the price of a carton of cream available at the local food market to make profits. To bolster the author's claim, he provides three specific shreds of evidence - the number of dairy farms in Relanna has increased by 25 percent, recent advances in the milking technology improves the efficiency by manifold and thereby less human intervention and lastly, the labors in Relanna are lower than it was ten years before. However, there could be alternative explanations that would possibly account for the high cost of cream.
To begin with, the author claims that the number of dairy farms in Relanna has increased by 25 percent. However, though the increase may seem significant at first glance, the author does not provide any information about the actual number. Perhaps, the number of dairy farms in Relanna was less than 5 ten years ago and a 25 percent increase would make it 6 which implies that the number of dairy farms has almost remained static over the past decade. It is fallacious to blatantly consider that this increase would have any substantial effect on the price of the cartoon. Moreover, the author asserts that the labor cost have reduced in the past ten years and again, the author does not provide any information about how much were the costs reduced to or by what amount. Perhaps, the decrease in the labor costs is so inconsequential that the reduction does not have any impact on the costs incurred for making the cream. If either of the alternate explanations has merit, the author's argument will be significantly weekend.
Moreover, the author does not explicitly mention if the local farmers are using advanced milking technology. It could very well be the case that the local farmers have not yet upgraded to the recent technology or they have been not using any technology to aid them in the first place. Since the farmers generally neither make hefty profits nor are they aware of better ROI(Return on Investment) by using advanced technology, they are generally disinclined towards promulgating the use of technology. And hence, though the author argues that newer milking technology reduces the dependency on manpower, perhaps, the farmers in Relanna have not yet adopted such technology which makes them incur the same costs as they did in the past. If this is the scenario in Relanna, the author's argument does not hold water.
Finally, the author spuriously assumes that there are no factors other than what is mentioned in the argument that affect the price of the cream. Perhaps the farmers have been made aware of the blights of the cattle recently and they have to invest to keep their salubrious. Or maybe there has been a significant increase in the price of the fodder over the past years which precludes them from making the cream at low costs. If either of the cases turns out to be true, they would significantly weaken the author's claim that the local farmers are increasing the price of the cream to gain profits.
To recapitulate, one can see that there are quite a few alternate explanations that would justify the high cost of the cream in the local food market and suggest contrary to the author's conclusion.
In the letter to the editor, it
is stated
that the
farmers
are
deliberately
inflating the
price
of a carton of
cream
available at the
local
food market to
make
profits. To bolster the
author's
claim, he provides three specific shreds of evidence
-
the
number
of
dairy
farms
in
Relanna
has increased by 25 percent, recent advances in the milking
technology
improves
the efficiency by manifold and thereby less human intervention and
lastly
, the labors in
Relanna
are lower than it was ten years
before
.
However
, there could be alternative explanations that would
possibly
account for the high
cost
of cream.
To
begin
with, the
author
claims that the
number
of
dairy
farms
in
Relanna
has increased by 25 percent.
However
, though the
increase
may seem significant at
first
glance, the
author
does
not provide any information about the actual
number
. Perhaps, the
number
of
dairy
farms
in
Relanna
was less than 5 ten years ago and a 25 percent
increase
would
make
it 6 which implies that the
number
of
dairy
farms
has almost remained static over the
past
decade. It is fallacious to
blatantly
consider that this
increase
would have any substantial effect on the
price
of the cartoon.
Moreover
, the
author
asserts that the labor
cost
have
reduced
in the
past
ten years and again, the
author
does
not provide any information about how much were the
costs
reduced
to or by what amount. Perhaps, the decrease in the labor
costs
is
so
inconsequential that the reduction
does
not have any impact on the
costs
incurred for making the
cream
. If either of the alternate explanations has merit, the
author's
argument will be
significantly
weekend
.
Moreover
, the
author
does
not
explicitly
mention if the
local
farmers
are using advanced milking
technology
. It could
very
well be the case that the
local
farmers
have not
yet
upgraded to the recent
technology or
they have been not using any
technology
to aid them in the
first
place. Since the
farmers
generally
neither
make
hefty profits nor are they aware of better ROI(Return on Investment) by using advanced
technology
, they are
generally
disinclined towards promulgating the
use
of
technology
. And
hence
, though the
author
argues that newer milking
technology
reduces
the dependency on manpower, perhaps, the
farmers
in
Relanna
have not
yet
adopted such
technology
which
makes
them incur the same
costs
as they did in the
past
. If this is the scenario in
Relanna
, the
author's
argument
does
not hold water.
Finally
, the
author
spuriously
assumes that there are no factors other than what
is mentioned
in the argument that affect the
price
of the
cream
. Perhaps the
farmers
have
been made
aware of the blights of the cattle
recently and
they
have to
invest to
keep
their salubrious. Or maybe there has been a significant
increase
in the
price
of the fodder over the
past
years which precludes them from making the
cream
at low
costs
. If either of the cases turns out to be true, they would
significantly
weaken the
author's
claim that the
local
farmers
are increasing the
price
of the
cream
to gain profits.
To recapitulate, one can
see
that there are quite a few alternate explanations that would justify the high
cost
of the
cream
in the
local
food market and suggest contrary to the
author's
conclusion.