Ethical+Issues

**C) Are there any ethical issues that you may encounter? How will you address these? ** Our recreation of the horseshoes not only benefits the horses but they should also benefit the people that put them on. The main focus is to create a horseshoe that reduces pain to horses and the farriers which can also create efficiency in the work process. Thus, through the recreation of the horseshoes, several ethical uses have been brought up. First, the process of putting on the horseshoe might harm both the horses and the farriers if not properly produced. The current design of the horseshoe still requires a certain amount of skills which even an expert farrier might make mistakes on. When shoeing mistakes happen, it could result in bleeding and pain of the horse since the nails might get through to the sensitive part of the hooves. Ethically, we considered these processes as violation to the animal rights but history and facts told us the contrary- the importance of the horseshoe. Second, though the horses are the subject in this innovation, the human beings are also the ones who are going to fit these items. In the process of putting on the horseshoes, farriers might injure themselves if it was not properly employed. This could be caused by nails, clips of the shoe or large movements of the horse. Thus, protection to the human being is also considered in our recreation of the horseshoe. Third, we questioned the time effort of the process which brought up two ethical issues- efficiency and job stability. Creating a more convenient horseshoe might reduce time and effort for the farriers which create efficiency. On the other hand, their specialties and skills are not as important anymore which their jobs are of the risk of being obsolete.