Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace (Essay)
"Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace
Genre: Essay
Topic: Animal ethics
Year: 2004
Original publication: Gourmet Magazine
A review and critique of the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival that examines the ethics of boiling a creature alive in order to enhance the consumer's taste pleasure, including a discussion of a lobster's sensory neurons and provoking questions regarding our treatment of animals in general.