Rhetorical Analysis Of Consider The Lobster

As the years fly by, so does humanity. Year after year, our species are embracing inhumane methods of producing food. Those creatures that cannot defend themselves, we attack or capture them and we slaughter them just for our pleasure. Slaughtering animals for consumption is acceptable, on account of, not everyone wants to be vegetarian. However, when decimating animals it should be done sympathetically or not at all. The animal should not have to suffer for our gustatory pleasure. In the essay, “Consider the Lobster,” by David Foster Wallace begins as a review of the Lobster Festival in Maine, also known as MLF. People from all over the world gather to indulge in immense amounts of lobster. The essay gradually evolves into a controversy of having an innocent creature slaughtered for one’s own consumption. Wallace’s intended audience is consumers of lobsters, basically anyone that eats or …show more content…
The author mentions the Maine Lobster Promotion Council and what they have to say, even though they are on the opposing side of the author’s argument. Wallace notes, “’The nervous system of a lobster is very simple, and is in fact most similar to the nervous system of the grasshopper. It is decentralized with no brain. There is no cerebral cortex, which in humans is the area of the brain that gives the experience of pain’…. a lot of neurology in this latter claim is still either false or fuzzy” (204). By stating this in his article, he shows what the opposing side has and how it may be wrong or has some falseness to it. Displaying the opposing side’s argument, makes his article stronger considering not only does he discuss his argument, however he discusses the argument against him as well. By doing so, it displays credibility because he is willing to show the argument that is against his. This allows consumers of lobsters, to observe both sides of the argument and shows how confident Wallace is in his own