Wallace- Lobster

Warrant- One warrant that Wallace uses is that people don't generally think about how or where their lobster comes from and don't pay attention to whether or not the process is inhumane.

In his essay “Considering the Lobster,” Wallace isn’t only writing about lobster but about the lack of attention or care afforded to the process by which they are killed simple for our culinary delight. When people think of corruption and inhumane acts in the food industry we immediately think of cows and chickens and big corporations strong arming farmers and poisoning our meat. Rarely do people think of the lobster industry as something that uses inhumane and borderline torturous methods to produce food. Wallace uses his essay to question the merits of killing something, in what is most likely a very painful way, for human pleasure. I would publish this because it is always worth exploring the various institutions that we participate in, regardless of how unpleasant something is. People can't run from things like animal rights/ cruelty just because it makes them feel guilty, in fact that's even more of a reason to talk about it.