The Issue I read is “The Horse Racing Industry”.
In the second paragraph, the writer presents her claim that the racehorse breeding and management practices should be improved, making the horse racing industry become more humane and profitable.
To support her claim, Christa has mentioned the economic and ethical concern about losing the horses as her reasons, making the industry less profitable. For the economic concern, she presents data about the cost of losing the horses. For the ethical concern, she also illustrates the result of a survey that over one-third of American people supported a ban on horse racing, while only one-fifth of people consider that hunting was wrong.
Moreover, the author also presents the idea of the opponents of changing racing and her counterargument. The opponents believe that the injured horse just occupy a small proportion because the total number of racing horses is increasing. Christa gives her counterargument that the durability of the racing horses is decreasing, supported by the date.
In my view, I think the argument is persuasive because the structure of the paragraph is clear, the author demonstrates many data to support her point and she acclaims the idea of the opponents and makes a counterargument. It makes me believe that the author is cautious on many aspects of ideas.
