Self-study
Support Many of those who are most opposed to cruelty to animals in the laboratory, in the slaughterhouse, or on the farm are people who truly love animals and who keep pets. ███ ████ ████████ ██ ████████ █████ ████████ ███ ████ ███ █████ ███ ████ ██ █████ ███████ ███ ███████ ███ █████ ██████████ ████ ██ █████ ███ ███ ████ ███████ ██ ███████ ██ ███████ ███ ██ █████ ██████████ ██ ████ ████████
Summary
Some of the people most opposed to animal cruelty are actually contributing to animal cruelty, because they have pets that eat meat.
Notable Assumptions
The author has made a conclusion about people’s actions qualifying as animal cruelty, but we have no idea what constitutes animal cruelty. The only thing we know about the group that’s been accused of cruelty is that they feed their pets meat. So, we need to know that this act contributes to animal cruelty.
2.
Which one of the following ██ ██ ██████████ ████ ██ ███ █████████
a
Loving pets requires ██████ ███ █████ ██ ██████ █████
It is not necessary that these people love all forms of animal life. We are trying to conclude that these people contribute to animal cruelty, and (A) is irrelevant for that conclusion.
b
Many of those ███ ███ ███████ ██ ███████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ████ ███ ████ ███████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████
We don’t need these two groups to overlap. We aren’t talking about people that are opposed to keeping dogs and cats as pets, so (B) is irrelevant.
c
Some people who ████ ██ █████████████ ██ ████████████████ ██ ██ █████ ███ ███████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████
The conclusion is specifically about some of the people most opposed to animal cruelty. It is not necessary for people working in particular places to have some level (we don’t even know how much) of opposition to it.
d
Many popular pets ███ ███ ███████ ███ █████
We’re talking about the ones that are fed meat. Irrelevant.
e
Feeding meat to ████ ███████████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████
This needs to be true. If we negate this, then feeding meat does not contribute to cruelty to animals, and the argument falls apart.