Brandon Healy
Professor Miler
ENG-Composition 110
11/11/19
Draft #2
Project #3
Do you consider the lobster? In David Foster Wallance’s article “Consider the Lobster”, he discusses the malice and degradation that goes into eating lobster. Wallace explains how boiling a lobster alive and the horrific way we treat animals, just for a better tasting meal should be reconsidered. At the beginning of the semester I thought that what David Foster Wallace’s had to say about the way animals should be treated was bogas and I had no interest in hearing what he had to say. The only thing I cared was how my food tasted, I did not consider at the effect it had on the animal that was feeding be. Now, I have a different opinion on animals and other creatures should be treated in this world. I had a realization after reading Ross Anderse’s “What the Crows Know“ and Hal Herzo’s “Animals Like Us”, these different articles taught me that animals can tortured, killed for sport, confined to cages, and abused for the enjoyment of people. The majority of people in this world are fine with as well. Most people do not see animals as equal to humans, so when animals are treated in this way, they see it as normal. I just found it interesting that people are fine with how these creatures are being treated, but if the roles would be switched the animal would be considered a monster. Why is this? Now, I’m not going to stop eating meat because I believe the killing of some animals is justified if there is a purpose for their death. The line is drawn at the unnecessary killing and the horrific torturing of animals. Whether you are a human or animal you deserve to die with respect and dignity. The way animals are being treated in this world today is wrong, they deserve to die with respect and dignity just like people.
Why as humans do we think its ok to treat animals the way we do? Do we just not care what happens to other living creatures or don’t believe their equal to own standards? We kill, tourture, mane, cage, and humiliate them are amusement and pleasure. When looking back on before reading Lizzie Widdicombe’s “The End of Food ”, Michael Pollan’s “Out of the Kitchen, onto the Couch”, Ross Andersen’s “What the Crows Know“, Hal Herzog’s “Animals Like Us”, Jessica Mitford’s “The Story of Service”, and listening to the interview with Caitlin Doughty, I wouldn’t consider to ideas and opinions that differ from mine. I would listen to the idea but in mind head toss it to the side as an incorrect fact. Once I was introduced to the authors of these articles who simply ask, why do we not consider creatures? Why in today’s world can we not consider how another living thing gets to be treated? Is it because the way we are raised or the social and political climate that governs society? They feel pain (add quote about lobster banging on top of pot). Who are we to make that decision for them? The way living creatures are treated is wrong, all things deserve to die with dignity.
Brandon Healy
Professor Miler
ENG-Composition 110
11/11/19
Draft #1
Project #3
Do you consider the lobster? In David Foster Wallance’s article “Consider the Lobster”, he discusses the malice and degradation that goes into eating lobster. Wallace explains how boiling a lobster alive and the horrific way we treat animals, just for a better tasting meal should be reconsidered. At the beginning of the semester I thought that what David Foster Wallace’s had to say about the way animals should be treated was bogas and I had no interest in hearing what he had to say. The only thing I cared was how my food tasted, I did not consider at the effect it had on the animal that was feeding be. Now, I have a different opinion on animals and other creatures should be treated in this world. I had a realization after reading Ross Anderse’s “What the Crows Know“ and Hal Herzo’s “Animals Like Us”, these different articles taught me that animals can tortured, killed for sport, confined to cages, and abused for the enjoyment of people. The majority of people in this world are fine with as well. Most people do not see animals as equal to humans, so when animals are treated in this way, they see it as normal. I just found it interesting that people are fine with how these creatures are being treated, but if the roles would be switched the animal would be considered a monster. Why is this? Now, I’m not going to stop eating meat because I believe the killing of some animals is justified if there is a purpose for their death. The line is drawn at the unnecessary killing and the horrific torturing of animals. Whether you are a human or animal you deserve to die with respect and dignity. The way animals are being treated in this world today is wrong, they deserve to die with respect and dignity just like people.
