A) One example of a warrant in Wallace's essay is the following quote: "The more important point here, though, is that the whole animal-cruelty-and-eating issue is not just complex, it's also uncomfortable" (309). Wallace warrants that all people would find the cruel methods for killing consumed animals as uncomfortable. He claims that the community can be uncomfortable because animal cruelty is seen in his point of view as an uncomfortable and complex subject matter.
B) I would definitely want to publish this article because I enjoyed how Wallace uses the transition of a humble, ignorant, but appeased story about the Maine Lobster Festival to a deep, self-analysing, and disillusioned story about the ethics of cooking lobster. This article teaches us that, although Gourmet magazine may pride itself on the aesthetics and perfectness of food, there's a deeper underbelly nagging at its core. Wallace doesn't tell us that we must be guilted into not eating meat for the sake of anti-animal cruelty, but he tells us to have more of an awareness of how our food is made and killed. This article doesn't deter us from wanting to eat luxurious food like lobster, but enlightens us on how we can appreciate and understand food better, which is perhaps one of the reasons to have a food magazine to begin with.
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