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A dairy federation's advertisement holds that its buttermilk should be preferred to the packaged drinks sold beside it, because buttermilk is a natural product while the drinks are made up of chemicals. Which of the following, if true, most weakens the federation's argument?

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  • AButtermilk left unrefrigerated for a few hours in the belt's summer carries organisms that cause more cases of illness each year than any of the packaged drinks sold beside it
  • BThe federation's buttermilk is sold in a sachet of the same material as the bottle the packaged drinks come in
  • CThe packaged drinks sold beside the buttermilk cost the buyer more than the buttermilk does
  • DThe federation collects the milk for its buttermilk from some nine hundred village societies

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The advertisement rests on an unstated rule — that what is natural is on that account better for the drinker — and the option overturns the rule where it matters most, by showing the natural drink doing more harm in this very belt than the manufactured ones. Once being natural can go with being dangerous, the federation's single reason has nothing left to carry. The sachet and the bottle being of one material is a point about the packet and not about what is inside it. The price bears on which drink is the better bargain, a matter the advertisement does not raise. And the nine hundred societies describe how the milk is gathered, which speaks to the federation's reach and not at all to whether natural means better.
Answer: A) Buttermilk left unrefrigerated for a few hours in the belt's summer carries organisms that cause more cases of illness each year than any of the packaged drinks sold beside it

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