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Consider the lobster
‘Consider the Lobster,’
is an article by David Foster Wallace where he discusses in-depth about the
lobsters, e.g., where they are found, how to cook them. A party called Maine
The lobster festival is held every year in July in the states’ mid-coast region. A
lobster is a marine crustacean, has five pairs of jointed legs, eyes, gills and
antennae (Wallace 1). They exist from the Jurassic period hence older than
Mammalians. Although lobster meat has a lot of advantages to the human body
than other meat, we should also consider them as living creatures and not only
food.
Lobsters should be
considered as living creatures. They are delicate and sensitive creatures to
minor changes like a single degree change in temperature. They feel pain, and
when exposed to extreme conditions, they badly suffer since they cannot go into
shock. When stressed, they react like humans by searching for safer places. During
transportation and displays in the supermarket, they are pegged to avoid hurting
each other due to stress from captivity. Pain is much exhibited in the kitchen; when boiling, one can hear the lid rattling as they try opening it. They behave like
a person being put into boiling water. It is unfair watching a live lobster
suffer in a pot of boiling water just because of our cravings.
While lobster meat is very nutritious, we should also treat them fairly. We should try gathering knowledge about them from their researches because we can’t understand their language. They are unique creatures that feel pain, have anxiety, and social relations like humans. They deserve our care and protection like fellow human beings. Replacing an animal-based meal with plant-based meals is a better way of reducing animal suffering and caring for them.
Work cited
Wallace, David Foster. Columbia.Edu,
2020, http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf.