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.
The conclusion of the argument seems to be based on a lot of presumptions. I have stated some of the possible scenarios in which the company's conclusion does not seem to be justified.
It might have been the case that the sample size of the testing was not big enough and during the investigation, they only picked out the right food packets by pure serendipity, in which case the results of the investigation become void by default.
While the chemicals on their own might have been approved for use in pet food, it might be possible that some of those chemicals are not advisable to use in combination with other chemicals. Moreover there might be restrictions on the concentration of some of the chemicals. In both these cases, the conclusions seems to fail and the recalled food would have been responsible for adverse effects on the animals.
Another scenario might be that although all the chemicals were safe and in benign concentration, they do not necessarily have a correct balance of minerals and vitamins required by the pet animal. We all know that a balanced diet is very essential for well-being of a person. A diet which is deficient in even one of the vitamins or mineral is likely to cause some kind of malady or ill-effect of that individual. As it is stated that animals were lethargic, the food might be short in energy providing compounds such as fats or carbohydrates. It might also be possible that the food was manufactured keeping in mind the certain breed of a pet but it might not be suitable for the other breeds. In this case, the company needs to conduct more rigorous tests of the retracted food.
Even if the food had a balance of nutrients and chemicals in correct concentrations, the preservatives in the food might not be adequate to make sure that the food can maintain its taste and concentrations after a long time. It might also be the case that some of the chemicals were difficult to digest for some of the animals or a breed of it, because of which they were unable to harness the nutrients in the food. In this case as well, the company needs to perform a more thorough research on the food and make sure that most of the breeds if not all of them, should be able to digest the food properly.
The food might not be agnostic to different environmental and geographic conditions and might be only suited to a particula
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 421 350
No. of Characters: 1911 1500
No. of Different Words: 185 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.53 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.539 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.722 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 111 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 91 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.312 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.853 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.628 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.124 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 90, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...on a lot of presumptions. I have stated some of the possible scenarios in which the company...
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Line 5, column 192, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...se in combination with other chemicals. Moreover there might be restrictions on the conc...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 253, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...be restrictions on the concentration of some of the chemicals. In both these cases, the con...
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Line 9, column 257, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...ng time. It might also be the case that some of the chemicals were difficult to digest for ...
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Line 9, column 308, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... chemicals were difficult to digest for some of the animals or a breed of it, because of wh...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, moreover, so, well, while, kind of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1956.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.6460807601 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7968251193 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.44893111639 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 616.5 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.8875206807 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.25 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3125 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.625 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229533233595 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0842176155324 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0661019249841 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117152513833 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.061179978218 0.0628817314937 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.99 12.5979740519 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.