Question

Pet owners argue for a law to ensure that pet food is free of lethal contaminants. Apparently they are unaware that half the children of the world eat contaminated food and drink polluted water every day. Thousands of these kids die regularly from cholera. The nations of the world should unite to halt this ongoing tragedy. In the mean time, we can forget about pets.

a Red herring.
b. Argument against the person, abusive.
c. No fallacy.
d. Complex question
e. Straw man.

Answer 1

A. Red herring.

Step-by-step explanation:

Fallacies are considered as flaw or errors in reasoning that cripples the logical efficacy of an argument that allows its recognition as erroneous or ineffective. Red herring is a kind of logical fallacy that involves the introduction of an irrelevant topic in an argument that leads to diversion of the readers from the main argument. This fallacy is usually employed to create suspense fiction to mislead the readers. Thus, the given example illustrates red herring fallacy as it distracts the audience by the inclusion of a false topic(children dying from eating contaminated foods) in the central argument that is the laws for pet food free of fatal contaminants.