Consider the Lobster

The purpose of the essay, “Consider the Lobster” is to inform readers about the truth about eating lobster and perhaps to argue against people from eating lobster because the lobster preparation can be seen as unethical. The truth about eating lobster is that it is cooked alive; live lobsters are placed in a boiling kettle and then are served to costumers at restaurants. Although you can humanely stab the lobster in the head and then boil it, not all restaurants and lobster-eaters do this. The article is interesting because it describes the pain the lobsters feel when they are boiled. Although lobsters don’t feel pain the way humans feel pain because they have a different nervous system, boiling lobsters alive is still unethical. One knows boiling lobsters alive is unethical because restaurant cooks often leave the room as the lobster is boiling in the pot because the lobsters shake the kettle in attempt to escape the hot water. This essay is similar to the documentary because they both reveal a hidden, unfortunate truth about where food that humans eat comes from. The argument that this essay poses is similar to an underlying argument that the documentary has. The documentary’s underlying argument is that chickens, cows and pigs and mistreated in and on their way to the slaughterhouses. The animals are crammed into trucks and trains and then crowded in the assembly line of the slaughter factory. These animals die stressed, just like the lobsters.