Cattle Cost Welcome! You are encouraged to register with the site and login (for free). When you register, you support the site and your question history is saved.Cattle rancher: The new government regulations requiring the testing of all cattle crossing state borders would cost cattle ranchers $1 billion annually. These regulations would damage the nation's economy.Health regulator: Some of the $1 billion spent or lost by ranchers will be revenue for other businesses. Profits will be gained as well as lost. The health regulator responds to the cattle rancher by demonstrating that the rancher's conclusion is based on evidence that is not relevant to the issue at hand challenging the plausibility of the evidence that serves as the basis for the rancher's argument suggesting that the rancher's argument overlooks a mitigating consequence reinforcing the rancher's conclusion by supplying a complementary interpretation of the evidence the rancher cites agreeing with the main conclusion of the rancher's argument but construing that conclusion as grounds for optimism rather than for pessimism Review Answer