Furthermore, Wallace includes a footnote after mentioning the fact that he believes that, “animals are less morally important than human beings,” stating, “... apparently, since the moral comparison here is not the value of one human’s life vs. the value of one animal’s life, but rather the value of one animal’s life vs. the value of one human’s taste for a particular kind of protein. Even the most diehard carniphila will acknowledge that it’s possible to live and eat well without consuming animals”(2004). Wallace confirms the fact that it is possible for a human being to survive without consuming meat as their source of protein. In Wallace’s essay he also mentions the method used to boil the lobster alive stating: “ .... the lobster will sometimes try to cling to the container’s sides or even to hook its claws over the kettle’s rim like a person trying to keep from going over the edge of a roof. And worse is when the lobster’s fully immersed. Even if you cover the kettle and turn away, you can usually hear the cover rattling and clanking as the lobster tries to push it off. Or the creature’s claws scraping the sides of the kettle as it thrashes around. The lobster, in other words, behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water (with the obvious exception of
Furthermore, Wallace includes a footnote after mentioning the fact that he believes that, “animals are less morally important than human beings,” stating, “... apparently, since the moral comparison here is not the value of one human’s life vs. the value of one animal’s life, but rather the value of one animal’s life vs. the value of one human’s taste for a particular kind of protein. Even the most diehard carniphila will acknowledge that it’s possible to live and eat well without consuming animals”(2004). Wallace confirms the fact that it is possible for a human being to survive without consuming meat as their source of protein. In Wallace’s essay he also mentions the method used to boil the lobster alive stating: “ .... the lobster will sometimes try to cling to the container’s sides or even to hook its claws over the kettle’s rim like a person trying to keep from going over the edge of a roof. And worse is when the lobster’s fully immersed. Even if you cover the kettle and turn away, you can usually hear the cover rattling and clanking as the lobster tries to push it off. Or the creature’s claws scraping the sides of the kettle as it thrashes around. The lobster, in other words, behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water (with the obvious exception of