The article opens with an introduction of the annual Lobster Festival in Maine. While illustrating the extravagant events, the author also raises a question of whether we should boil lobster alive. The author suggests that the action is inhumane based on the study of lobster’s natural nerve system. He questions whether we should satisfy with our current method of killing lobster because there are more inhumane ways to do so or we should stop doing so because it is an unmoral behavior. Eventually, the author branches out the argument on whether we should associate the our daily animal-eating meal habits to cruelity, and how should we balance our desires for aesthetics and
