Resident: Residents of this locale should not consider their

Resident: Residents of this locale should not consider
their loss of farming as a way of life to be a
tragedy. When this area was a rural area it was
economically depressed, but it is now a growing
bastion of high-tech industry with high-wage
jobs, and supports over 20 times the number of
jobs it did then.

Which one of the following, if true, does the most to
justify the conclusion of the residentтАЩs argument?
(A) Farming is becoming increasingly efficient, with
the result that fewer farms are required to
produce the same amount of food.
(B) The development of high-tech industry is more
valuable to national security than is farming.
(C) Residents of this locale do not value a rural way
of life more than they value economic
prosperity.
(D) Many residents of this locale have annual
incomes that are twice what they were when
the locale was primarily agricultural.
(E) The loss of a family farm is often perceived as
tragic even when no financial hardship results.