Question

Read the excerpt from "A Defense of Veganism."

Answer 1

The counter-argument that the author addresses is that veganism does not protect the environment. To fight this argument the author shows how harmful meat production is to the environment. The answer is B.

Answer 2

The author addresses the counter-argument in the above excerpt by providing facts about meat production to refute the counter-argument.

The correct option is B.

In the excerpt, he presents through the facts what damages the production of meat bring to the environment. In his article ‘In Defense of Eating Meat’, Timothy Hsiao argued that consuming the animal products is bad but not morally bad because it provides nutritional values to the humans.