LSAT 120 – Section 1 – Question 22

LSAT 120 - Section 1 - Question 22

October 2005

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PT120 S1 Q22
+LR
Weaken +Weak
A
11%
161
B
35%
161
C
32%
166
D
12%
160
E
11%
162
161
172
180
 +Hardest 145.819 +SubsectionMedium

Columnist: There are certain pesticides that, even though they have been banned for use in the United States for nearly 30 years, are still manufactured there and exported to other countries. In addition to jeopardizing the health of people in these other countries, this practice greatly increases the health risk to U.S. consumers, for these pesticides are often used on agricultural products imported into the United States.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that the U.S. practice of making certain pesticides that are banned for use in the U.S. and sending those pesticides to other countries greatly increases the health risk to people in the U.S. This is because those kinds of pesticides are often used on products that are imported into the U.S.

Notable Assumptions
The argument assumes that the stuff that is sprayed onto the products that are imported into the U.S. originally was made in the U.S. (This overlooks the possibility that even though the U.S. makes and exports certain pesticides, the U.S. made stuff isn’t used on the imported products. The stuff used on the imported products could be the same kind of pesticides, but made in other countries.)

A
Trace amounts of some of the pesticides banned for use in the United States can be detected in the soil where they were used 30 years ago.
The fact the pesticide is already in soil doesn’t impact whether the U.S. practice of making the pesticides and sending them to other countries hurts the U.S. We still have reason to think the U.S. practice of making/exporting the pesticide hurts people in the U.S.
B
Most of the pesticides that are manufactured in the United States and exported are not among those banned for use in the United States.
We still know that the banned pesticides are among the ones the U.S. makes and exports. There may be other pesticides that are not banned; the argument isn’t concerned with those.
C
The United States is not the only country that manufactures and exports the pesticides that are banned for use in the United States.
This raises the possibility that the pesticides used on the imported products are coming from another country, not the U.S. Multiple countries may be making the same kinds of banned pesticides. So, we cannot assume that stuff sprayed on the products had a U.S. origin.
D
The banned pesticides pose a greater risk to people in the countries in which they are used than to U.S. consumers.
Even if they pose a greater risk to people in other countries, that doesn’t suggest that might not also increase the health risk to people in the U.S.
E
There are many pesticides that are banned for use in other countries that are not banned for use in the United States.
The argument concerns the pesticides banned for use in the U.S. Whether those pesticides are banned in other countries has no bearing on the level of danger posed by those pesticides.

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