I just finished this newspaper story for my school paper about animal overpopulation, tell me what you think on the subject.

The world is becoming more over populated with each passing year, humans and animals alike.
Humanity's solution to the animal side of the problem? Kill them, and when we do, its not always humane.
There is no problem with killing animals for food or use in some other appropriate way. However, it gets vague when the killing gets out of hand, and the animals begin to suffer and feel pain.
In South Africa, it is again legal to kill elephants after 50 years of the animals' protection. In Japan, whaling has resumed. In Canada, baby seals are being clubbed to death. And here in America, we kill many things, most just for fun.
Iowa law 717, part 717B.3 states that "mutilating, beating, or killing animals by any means which causes unjustified pain, distress, or suffering" is against the law.
Nobody can say that with every kill, the animal is killed quickly and feels no pain.
In recent history, a hog farm/ slaughterhouse in Ohio was killing sows by hanging them off a fork lift by a chain, taking up to 10 minutes for the pig to die. The normal way of killing the animals is to stun them and make one fatal shot to the brain with a gun, a quick death.
Dr. Paul Armbrecht, a Iowa veterinarian, testified as a paid witness for the defense in the court case concerning the killings, stated under oath that strangling pigs to death does not constitute cruelty to animals. The Iowa Board of Veterinary Medicine decided not to take action against this remark that represented Iowa.
So, in Iowa it is okay for any farmer or vet to treat animals this way.
If and when the shoe was on the other foot, how will we handle human overpopulation? Will there be a humane answer?
With all the discoveries in medicine, humans have cheated Mother Nature and her job of population control.
Humans live longer and fight sickness. When we become overpopulated, will we turn on each other? Would we be willing to kill hundreds and thousands of people, just to live another day? Better yet, would we be willing to kill our mothers, fathers and siblings? If not ours, then someone else's?
Though solutions for the human population are tough. We could always quit using medicine, but then how do we undo what we have strived for from the beginning of time? It would be years in the future, but we could even look to live on other planets.
For the animal side, we need to offer forms of contraception, or to spade/ nuttier some of the males and females. This way, we can hold the population where it is now, not making the herds any bigger. Then the offspring can live their lives the way they were meant to be.
We as humans need to put ourselves in the animals' hooves. We need to enjoy the animal's company while we can, because once they are gone, their is no getting them back.