Lobster Feels

Consider the Lobster is a very interesting article. What starts out as a light review about a festival that occurs in Maine, quickly turns into an excellent analysis that causes the reader to call into question everything they thought they knew about the preparation of Lobster. The author, without any obvious bias, uses proven science and research to describe how the cooking process effects the actual Lobster. He causes the reader to consider the morality of killing lobsters the way we do. I think the author shares the view of many people when he says he has spent most of his life ignoring the problem. I myself am a vegan and I have many friends who often say they wish they could commit to such a thing, but because meat tastes “so good” they chose to ignore the immoral side of it. I am slightly biased because of my beliefs on this matter, however I do not judge nor spend my days holding signs on the street attempting to convert everyone I know. However, it is a fact that when you eat meat, you are killing something. That is unavoidable, but how you chose to go about the morality of this fact is entirely up to you. The author admits that he “has not succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient,” meaning he himself has not come up with a reason to defend himself for being a proprietor of the killing and eating of lobster. It sounds to me like he is struggling with this concept, and that he does regard this killing as inhumane. I am clued into this when he describes the killing of cows at a festival as a “slaughter.” Overall, this article uses plenty of scientific evidence and is very effective in making the reader truly consider the repercussions of forgetting to consider the lobster.