Assumption: Other nations grew very little beans ( Indian Ocean produced more than half of the worlds beans)
The question requires us to strength the argument. So option D states that imports of beans in other countries dropped. This implies that they started growing their own beans and hence didn’t rely on beans from Indian Ocean. So that means Voltage still contained Vanilla in their drinks and the argument is actually weakened.
I would be great if someone can help me out in this. Thanks!
Hey, the problem with your reasoning is that you’re misinterpreting the option D.
It states that imports of Vanilla beans dropped in countries where Voltage is made.
In other words, the manufacturer of Voltage was buying less amount of Vanilla beans from the island in Indian Ocean. To put simply, Voltage was NOT the main importer of Vanilla beans anymore, which implies the Indian Ocean Island was NOT exporting much Vanilla beans to the manufacture of Voltage as before; consequently, the export earnings of that island in Indian Ocean began to fall. And this does support the conclusion that Voltage adopted a new formula that didn’t contain Vanilla beans.
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Thanks @ehza, that made more sense. For some reason I was not able to get past my way of looking at the argument.