Lobster Ethical Issues

Wallace rather think the lobsters do not feel pain the same way as humans to keep his conscious from being conflicted which shows the effectiveness of having a preference-based ethical position. People choose to eat from organic farms that doesn’t aabuse the animals and they only use products that are labeled no animals were harm in this making to feel better about themselves. The media also like to use this method in a negative way to work in their favor like sending troops to another country and saying we need to go there before they attack us knowing the country does not have enough power to even attack the U.S, we choose to believe to keep a clean conscious. The ineffectiveness of having preference-base ethics is the fact that individuals and organizations use it to their advantage, meaning they only look at one side.
For instance, the PETA organization say the lobsters can feel pain and that’s why when in the boiling pot they scratch the sides because they know their being boiled alive while lobster lovers will say lobsters have behaviors which is why when they scratch the kettle its involuntary reflexes and do not feel pain the same way we do. Personally I feel that we like to touch on people 's …show more content…
In the U.S. Industry produces more than 80 million pounds of lobster and main accounts for more than half according to Wallace. I know they can live for more than 100 years and aren 't close to extinction but I think that doesn’t mean we should be having festivals just to eat a lot of it just for kicks. Back in the day lobster was considered food for the poor and it was up there with eating rat so that right shows how we shouldn’t be taking it for granted cause we