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Assignment:

Please read the following passage. The sentences are numbered just for your reference.

(1) Flesh food is not a necessity in the human diet, as

(2) nutritionally adequate alternatives are readily available.

(3) Many people in the world thrive on a nonmeat diet.

(4) Indeed, vegetarian Seventh-Day Adventists in this country live an average of six years longer than their meat-eating counterparts.

(5) The National Academy of Science warns that our fat-laden diet is directly responsible for much of the heart disease and cancer that afflict so many

(6) At a time when people are starving in certain parts of the world, it should be noted that a steer must consume sixteen pounds of grain and soy to produce one pound of meat.

(7) The grain and soybeans we feed our meat-producing animals would feed every hungry mouth in the world many times over.

(8) Cattle are competing with humans for food.

(9) Clearly, a reassessment of the whole concept of killing and eating animals is in order.

First, determine whether this passage presents reasoning. If not, explain why you think that. If it does present reasoning, then schematize the argument. Please write out the sentences in the schematization; do not just use sentence numbers.