#argument
"An international development organization, in response to a vitamin A deficiency among people in the impoverished nation of Tagus, has engineered a new breed of millet high in vitamin A. While seeds for this new type of millet cost more, farmers will be paid subsidies for farming the new variety of millet. Since millet is already a staple food in Tagus, people will readily adopt the new variety. To combat vitamin A deficiency, the government of Tagus should do everything it can to promote this new type of millet."
#Response:
International development organization created a new bread millet high in vitamin A to cure its deficiency among people, where farmers are given subsidies for new seeds for increasing production of millet which is already a staple food in city.
Creating new seeds high in vitamin A does not give justify that it will eradicate the deficiency in all the people. Because being already a staple food its not necessary that each deficient person would be consuming that food regularly. May be some people do not like that millet in Tagus. So there deficiency will not be cured.
New seeds millet bread could taste different compared to already habitual taste of millet bread among Tagus people. Which can also hinder the possibility of eradication of vitamin A deficiency. because those having deficiency may would not like it and will not get cured. Also increasing the production of new seeds with giving subsidies, then may be farmers will start growing new one and those who do not have deficiency have to also consume the new one because its a city staple food.
Giving subsidies only to farmer does shows that farmer will start producing those seeds because there production depends on the sale they make. And industries buying old millet seeds have machines and recipes of making old ones. They would not buy new one because they have to spend money for new machines or new production recipes. As government giving subsidies to only farmers but farmer can only grow raw seeds which manufacture require the most. So government should consider the production level of new millet seeds for making bread. so that they can produce products with more vitamin A in it.
Arguments also does not address about people with no deficiency as they also have to eat those new millet bread which they don't want also. And may be this can lead to not produce new millet seed by farmers because may be more percentage of people in Tagus city are not vitamin A deficient. which will cause people with deficiency to suffer and government act will not be able to help those people.