Consider the lobster.

Write a short reflection on the reading.  What is the author’s thesis?  What is your thesis on the matter?

Do you think about the cruelty to animals that you eat or do not eat?

Is this a matter of morality, ethics, justice?

Do some google research on evolution and man’s eating of animals.  Cooking.  Agriculture.

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  1. In “Consider the Lobster”, Wallace is talking about the experience that he had while attending the 56th Annual Maine Lobster Festival where lobsters were cooked alive and eaten in abundance. Lobsters are species of benthic carnivore and both hunters and scavengers. They are considered as giant sea insects.
    In this text, Wallace discusses the cruelty of eating animals and the issue of animals’ personal experience. He is not trying to blame anyone, but he thinks that killing animals, especially lobsters right there in our kitchens is horrible because they are conscious when being put in the kettle. By asking this question, “Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?” He wants us, readers, to be aware of the painful procedures most animals go through. To answer that question, I think it is firstly a matter of personal choice to do what is right or essential and secondly a matter of morality because the moral principle is that eating animals is wrong and should be prohibited.
    Wallace uses some good strategies to make us realize how sad it is to treat animals, especially lobsters badly and inhumanly by boiling them alive and making them suffer. He explains that once lobsters start feeling the pain, they try to escape or hook their claws over the kettle and push off the cover. Chefs prefer to stay away while boiling them, so they do not have to see how hard lobsters struggle to get out. He goes further by comparing that situation to us, human beings, because if we were plunged into boiling water, we would probably do the same thing and try to escape that painful experience. He also mentioned that in the 1800s, some colonies in America had laws against feeding lobsters, which sounds cruel to me.
    I personally avoid thinking about the cruelty of animals because it makes me feel uncomfortable. I once ate lobsters with my Thai friend, and to be honest I did not know the amount of pain they were going through when being cooked. However, it does not mean that I am a cruel or unfeeling person because I eat some kinds of animals.
    I do not know if one day we would all be able to live without consuming animals, but I hope that we would do our best to stop inflicting them too much pain.

  2. In “Consider the Lobster”, Wallace is talking about the experience that he had while attending the 56th Annual Maine Lobster Festival where lobsters were cooked alive and eaten in abundance. Lobsters are species of benthic carnivore and both hunters and scavengers. They are considered as giant sea insects.

    In this text, Wallace discusses the cruelty of eating animals and the issue of animals’ personal experience. He is not trying to blame anyone, but he thinks that killing animals, especially lobsters right there in our kitchens is horrible because they are conscious when being put in the kettle. By asking this question, “Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?” He wants us, readers, to be aware of the painful procedures most animals go through. To answer that question, I think it is firstly a matter of personal choice to do what is right or essential and secondly a matter of morality because the moral principle is that eating animals is wrong and should be prohibited.

    Wallace uses some good strategies to make us realize how sad it is to treat animals, especially lobsters badly and inhumanly by boiling them alive and making them suffer. He explains that once lobsters start feeling the pain, they try to escape or hook their claws over the kettle and push off the cover. Chefs prefer to stay away while boiling them, so they do not have to see how hard lobsters struggle to get out. He goes further by comparing that situation to us, human beings, because if we were plunged into boiling water, we would probably do the same thing and try to escape that painful experience. He also mentioned that in the 1800s, some colonies in America had laws against feeding lobsters, which sounds cruel to me.

    I personally avoid thinking about the cruelty of animals because it makes me feel uncomfortable. I once ate lobsters with my Thai friend, and to be honest I did not know the amount of pain they were going through when being cooked. However, it does not mean that I am a cruel or unfeeling person because I eat some kinds of animals.

    I do not know if one day we would all be able to live without consuming animals, but I hope that we would do our best to stop inflicting them too much pain.

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