Some pig farmers in Bravia give antibiotic laden feed to their animal

Question

Some pig farmers in Bravia give antibiotic laden feed to their animals to ward off diseases prevalent among them. Many restaurants in the city are major buyers of pork from these pig farms. Recently, health concerns have been raised over the consumption of pork derived from such antibiotic-fed animals. As a result, Restaurants have been losing customers who used to mostly order pork items upon their visit. To stem these losses, the Association of restaurants has decided to enforce a requirement that restaurants using pork from such antibiotic-fed animals mention the fact in their menu. Despite such actions, restaurants will continue to lose business since_____________.
 
Which of the following logically completes the passage?

A)The full impact of consuming pork raised from anti-biotic fed animals has not been conclusively established but is enough to scare the customers.
B) Some of the restaurants that were on the verge of buying pork from the farms using anti-biotic laden feed for their animals are having second thoughts.
C) The farms using anti-biotic laden feed for their animals does not form a significantly large proportion of the total number of pig farms in Bravia.
D) Despite making the restaurants spend all the money to change their menu, the association has allocated little money to educate potential customers of its plans.
E) The consistency of pork is such that there is no discernible change in the texture, colour or taste of pork raised from anti-biotic fed.

rheam25 · Answer

Could someone please help me understand the argument and the difference between option A & D? I'm not sure I understand the argument entirely.

JohnWidestone · Answer

Some pig farmers in Bravia give antibiotic laden feed to their animals to ward off diseases prevalent among them. Many restaurants in the city are major buyers of pork from these pig farms. Recently, health concerns have been raised over the consumption of pork derived from such antibiotic-fed animals. As a result, Restaurants have been losing customers who used to mostly order pork items upon their visit. To stem these losses, the Association of restaurants has decided to enforce a requirement that restaurants using pork from such antibiotic-fed animals mention the fact in their menu. Despite such actions, restaurants will continue to lose business since_____________.

Farmers feed their pigs with antibiotic laden feed.
Consumption of meat from antibiotic-fed animals might be bad for health
Restaurants loose customers because of this.
To counter this losses the association enforces to state in the menu whether the meat is from antibiotic-fed animals or not.

Thus why would the restaurants still loose customers despite the action of the association of restaurants?

A)The full impact of consuming pork raised from anti-biotic fed animals has not been conclusively established but is enough to scare the customers.
 This is out of scope. It does not help to answer our question. 
B) Some of the restaurants that were on the verge of buying pork from the farms using anti-biotic laden feed for their animals are having second thoughts.
 This would rather be a positive thing, but does not answer the question either. 
C) The farms using anti-biotic laden feed for their animals does not form a significantly large proportion of the total number of pig farms in Bravia.
 This is something we already know. Does not answer our question. 
D) Despite making the restaurants spend all the money to change their menu, the association has allocated little money to educate potential customers of its plans.
 Well this is looking good. Here we are given an explanation why the restaurants are still loosing customers despite the action taken by the association of restaurants. 
E) The consistency of pork is such that there is no discernible change in the texture, colour or taste of pork raised from anti-biotic fed.
 Does not answer our question

Tanmaysaxena97 · Answer

E and D are equally good to me! 
E because people are afraid that maybe the restaurant can still cheat, while they can't discern between two porks.

numb007 · Answer

This is an assumption question in disguise:

We will need an answer which when negated destroys the conclusion.
Conclusion: Resturants will keep on loosing business.
A)Negation of this doesn't break the argument. If you look closely this doesn't even concerns the conclusion.
B) and C) doesn't even make sense
E) Again...Out of scope 
 Because it says anti-biotic fed pork does not change texture/taste/color.This seems to be a weak "weakner" of the argument.
D) Try negating this statement. 
 Negation says: Even though changes are being made people are not being educated enough. This sure destroys the 
 argument. NO matter what you do if you don't let people know about it,its futile.

Maninder23091991 · Answer

GMATNinja  Pls share your thoughts

richirish · Answer

D is the most accurate here, took me a 1 minute to solve it, the statement is clearly saying that restaurants will continue to loose business = customers/revenue so it is no longer about pork quality, the argument has shifted gears to $, straightforward and simple choice as the customers are not educated about this new directive they won't be confident enough to come and try out the pork dishes!

NeoNguyen1989 · Answer

Premise : antibiotics is used to fend off diseases
Premise: pork with antibiotics is not good for health of consumers 
Premise : consumers are boycotting restaurants who use the pork with antibiotics 
Premise : the association of restaurants demand that the menu clearly state porks with antibiotics (so that consumers can make a choice and thereby stop boycotting all the restaurants who don't use pork with antibiotics) 
Conclusion: the demand of the association of restaurants will not work to stop the boycotting because...

Question stem: identify the assumption that lead to the conclusion

deskdivermike · Answer

I chose D.

D) Despite making the restaurants spend all the money to change their menu, the association has allocated little money to educate potential customers of its plans.

If potential customers are not informed of this plan, they will not visit the restaurant, let alone noticing the subtle change in menu ! This will still cause a loss to the restaurant.

Saasingh · Answer

Its clearly between A and D. I chose D for the following reasons:-

A)The full impact of consuming pork raised from anti-biotic fed animals has not been conclusively established but is enough to scare the customers. 
Well, even if full impact is not established, restaurants are mentioning in the menu's that they use these porks from such farms. So even if a customer is scared, the have that statutory warning in the menu and can avoid. No reason why restaurant would lose business.

D) Despite making the restaurants spend all the money to change their menu, the association has allocated little money to educate potential customers of its plans. 
Correct, because even though the menu has been changed, people are not aware (they might just sit and home and not go to these restaurants as they don't know about such requirement of warning).

deveshj21 · Answer

nightblade354 
Option D is talking about educating potential customers, but the argument only talks about loosing business from customers who used to order Pork dish while they were at the restaurant, moreover E as per me is a better option since it says, in layman parlance, that even if we notify the customers whether the pork has been fed antibiotic feed, customers wont believe it bcz there will be no difference between the two types of pork used.

shanky315 · Answer

In Option D "Despite making the restaurants spend all the money to change their menu, the association has allocated little money to educate potential customers of its plans."--- even if the association spends all the money to educate potential customers of its plans--- hence, people will be more aware that the restaurant is selling the antibiotic feed pork having health concerns. Eventually, the sales will go down. even if we negate this statement does it really break the conclusion?? please help me understand.
Thanks

nightblade354 · Answer

We have too many official question sources (OG and LSAT) to waste your time on non-official questions. I haven't reviewed this one specifically, but most non-official sources have flaws in the argument.

KeyurJoshi · Answer

+1  deveshj21

In A,
Fear of customers regarding health by consuming pork of antibiotic fed animals(pigs) will lead to loss of business..
Which, after giving it a thought, is wrong.
People may still eat some other food at restaurants, right? but its out of scope I know.

In D,
Let's say we put little money for educating people. IMO This choice still requires assumptions. What does little money mean? Is it sufficient or not, we don't know. plus it goes a little beyond argument.

In E,
Health concerns have been raised over the consumption of pork derived from such antibiotic-fed animals.
Restaurants will lose biz bc -> no discernible change in the texture, colour or taste of pork raised from anti-biotic fed.
 
Customers are still scared that they won't know if it's antibiotic fed or not -> Restaurant losing biz?
This is still a question of MAYBE. This is not a strong statement.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. I was lost on this question and still couldn't get the right answer.

amarghosh · Answer

Can anyone suggest why A is wrong and D is correct.

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

Hi Amar

The questions asks us to identify why restaurants will continue to lose business despite having such restaurants that use antibiotic fed pork declare the same in their menus.

Option (A) states that there is some impact of antibiotic fed pork, the exact extent of which is unknown, but what is known is enough to scare customers. In other words, customers are scared by even the potential of an adverse impact by consuming such pork. But if all restaurants that source antibiotic fed pork declare it in their menus, the customers can avoid porn in these restaurants (or avoid these restaurants altogether) and continue to visit other restaurants, thus reducing the loss of business (since currently customers would be avoiding all restaurants or pork at all restaurants since they do not know which ones source antibiotic fed pork). Thus (A) does not logically tell us why restaurants will continue to lose business.

Option (D) states that the association has not tried to educate the public of its plan. Therefore, even if the relevant restaurants declare on their menus that they source antibiotic fed pork, customers will not know that they can get this knowledge by looking at the menus, and hence would continue to avoid pork at all restaurants or restaurants altogether. This tells us why the plan will fail and hence is the correct option.

Hope this clarifies.

egmat · Answer

Choice A: This choice talks about the reason behind the customer decline at restaurants. But the passage already gives us the information why the customers have stopped going to the eateries. Why they will continue to stay away is not explained by this choice.

Thus, this is not the correct answer choice.

Choice D: This choice tells us that prospective customers are not aware of the associations plans and therefore likely have decide to stay away from restaurants.

Thus, this is the correct answer choice.

Hope it helps,
Regards

anshgupta_2 · Answer

We already know that restaurants have been losing customers i.e., at least few customers who were going to the restaurant are not visiting anymore. We need something that tells us why these customers will continue to stay away (or why restaurants will continue to lose this business)
Option A - We already know that customers are scared, but this doesn't tell us why the customers "will continue to be scared" even after the restaurants have changed their menu

Option D- this tells us that because the customers are not aware of the fact that restaurants have changed their menu, they are unlikely to visit the restaurants due to their earlier fears

arbazfatmi1994 · Answer

"The restaurants would lose business" is the main concern.

In my view, A and B are equally strong.

I might be wrong, but if restaurant owners are not gonna buy pork, won't they lose business?

I don't know, EXPERTS?

Aakanksha1194 · Answer

D is the first choice I eliminated. I don't understand the connection

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