argument75 求拍

李小含

75:
In this letter, the author claim that theBatavia government should being to regulate retail milk prices in order toprevent farmers from receiving excessive profits on the increased supply ofmilk. To support his claim, the author points out the increased number of dairyfarms. He also cites the raised milk price at a local market. However, theletter is unconvincing for several reasons.

In the first place, the author assumes araise of local dairy farm amount with a national statistics. The assumption is logicallyunsound, since nationwide situation cannot represent local situation. It ispossible that the local diary industry has been suffered from declination recentyears, and the tendency of the dairy farm amount is opposite with that of nationwide.

In the second place, even if the number oflocal dairy farm is greater, the author’s hastily extrapolation of theincreased milk supply is not as apparent as he suggests. Perhaps, it is exactlythe lower production of dairy farms that forces more farms to be establishedand dairy industry may still suffer from an entire drop in production.

Thirdly, even if the supply increased atthe same time, and as the author points out, the local market asks for highermilk price, whether farmers have been benefited from excessive profits isunknown. First of all, the statistics is compared with the data of 10 yearsago. Perhaps the quality is higher required 10 years later, which raised the productioncost. Since the profit is equal with sale minus cost, the farmers possiblybenefit little from the raised price. Furthermore, with rapid economic development,price should be correspondent to inflation rate.When take inflation into consideration, 3 dollar may be “less” than 1.5.

In summary,the evidences are insufficient to support the author’s claim. More recent statisticsof local dairy industry should be provided to prove the increased milk supply. Moreover,profits should be added up with reliable data, instead of simply inferred fromsale price.

jdef1028

个人觉得前两个place没太展开阿...比如in the first place 那段，可以增加一句sample对于representative的要求，随便写一句：To establish a credible survey, the sample must be sufficient in size.The statistic given,which does not present the exact  the number of dairy farms over the period, is not reliable enough.... 随便写的一句，仅参考  

BTW，求拍我的Argu18啊啊

竹林中人

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李小含

附题
The department of agriculture in Batavia reports that the number of dairy farms throughout the country is now 25 percent greater than it was 10 years ago. During this same time period, however, the price of milk at the local Excello Food Market has increased from $1.50 to over $3.00 per gallon. To prevent farmers from continuing to receive excessive profits on an apparently increased supply of milk, the Batavia government should begin to regulate retail milk prices. Such regulation is necessary to ensure fair prices for consumers.