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Analysis Of David Grimm's A Cure For Euthanasia

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Animals are the foundation of millions of relationships in the world, whether it is a cat or dog, they are the companions of people of all ages. Unfortunately, just like humans, animals can become homeless and end up in shelters. This topic is touched on by author, David Grimm, in his article "A Cure for Euthanasia," published in 2009 by American Association for the Advancement of Science, he argues that there are other forms of dealing with overpopulation of animals other than euthanasia. Euthanasia is known to be the act of putting an animal to death because of a disease or because they no longer fit in animal shelters. Grimm goes into depth about the options that we have to resolve the reproduction of animals, he touches on the emotional appeals that would encourage owners to get their pets spayed or neutered to prevent any kind of overpopulation that would potentially end up with stray animals euthanized …show more content…

He constantly gives out the statistics of homeless animals in other countries other than America. He also mentioned a U.S. billionaire named, Gary Michelson who "donated $75 million to the development of a single use nonsurgical sterilant for dogs and cats" (Grimm pg. 1491), he delivers this information by giving the readers the proper information that would inform them of the possibilities that there are for the development of proper sterilization for stray animals. Grimm also stated that "There's a lot of very bright people out there who haven't applied their research direction to dogs and cats, in part because there has been no money" (Grimm pg. 1492), he decides to say this because he wants to emphasize the fact that people wished that there would be enough money to create a shot, but there never was. By stating this fact, he wanted the reader to understand how Michelson was the start of the development of this

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