Consider the Lobster

A) One warrant of Wallace is the Maine Lobster Festival in which many many people are eating lobster without acknowledging or just ignoring the process of how the lobster was prepared for them.
B) I believe this article, deep down, is about moral or ethical decisions that humans have to face and how we face them. In this case, the example of morals and ethics is represented with a very basic element of surviving, eating. I believe at its most basic level, it comes down to taking another animals or crustaceans life so you can live. With this basic element of life comes great resistance, opposition, or even chosen ignorance over the matter. A lot of people don't want to think about this subject because our culture has eliminated the need to think about it. In today's world, the vast majority of people have prepared food presented to them with having to see the process behind it, but at the same time knowing the process. In a way it has sensitized humans. I believe people would be surprised however, at how quickly they could become desensitized to this subject. If everyone had to hunt or harvest every meal they needed, including killing it, of course at first there would be huge opposition, like becoming vegetarian and in a condescending manner refuse to kill animals. But then a simple fact of life would come into play, if I do not kill I do not eat. It is also not cold hearted killing being done, for nothing. As humans and being at the top of the food chain, it is more just a matter of life. And it is also not a barbaric way of life, not 200 years ago everyone knew and participated in the process of harvesting food. If i had been the publisher of Gourmet magazine, i would have had no problem publishing this article because it is not a ground breaking unknown fact. Everybody knows whats behind each meal, some just refuse to think about it. Bringing it to light, as sad as the subject can appear, is a good reminder of how human we still are and how basic elements of life work.