Week 9 Blog #1

A potential topic that I have been thinking about for my research paper is the issue of horse slaughter. I have also been thinking about doing my paper on the horse protection act, or the issue of mustangs and burros being taken off state land and sold at auctions. These topics interests me because it is an undermined issue in our world today that a lot of people aren’t that familiar with. I also am very interested in the horse industry and this is one of the controversies that is going on in it. This topic is a very suitable choice for my purpose because it has many different opinions involved with it. For example, they have outlawed horse slaughter in the U.S., which is great because horse slaughter should not be happening, but now people are selling and smuggling horses to different countries where they aren’t treated humanely. They aren’t treated humanely there because there aren’t any animal welfare laws like there are in the U.S. This means that horses were treated nicely before being slaughtered in the U.S., but now they are going through horrible treatment on their way to be killed. This shows how controversal this topic is and how many causes and effects there are to it.