Consider the Lobster

Shipping Out and Into the Heart of Darkness I was relieved when I found out in Tom Scocca’s interview with David Foster Wallace that Harper’s magazine had the writer cut in half what was a 110-page article. I enjoyed reading the magazine’s published version, but was also more than ready for the cruise and the article to end when it did. I think I was possibly feeling a little of what Wallace was feeling, which is a credit to his descriptive and precise prose. “Shipping Out: On the (nearly…

unstoppable development does harm to the ethical response. People’s understanding of morality are not as advanced as the development of the world. In the end, people simply choose to get benefits from the whole but do not try to think critically to consider about the ethical…

In “Consider the Lobster,” published in Gourmet magazine in 2004, David Foster Wallace, an American novelist, essayist, and college professor, addresses the ethical considerations that revolve around the annual Maine Lobster Festival- eating lobster. This festival attracts tourist from all over the country to enjoy live music, beauty pageants, cooking competitions, and of course lobster (236). The easiest way to prepare lobster is boiling it in a kettle, and an important detail of this process…

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therefore, coastal people quickly found the resource distasteful (Woodworth, 2004, p. 182). In many areas lobsters were considered so undesirable that they were often fed to prisoners and indentured servants so that “commercially valued” products could be conserved (Woodworth, 2004, p.170). The urbanization of New England in the 1800’s dramatically influenced the product’s value, prompting lobster stocks in New York and New London waters to be quickly exhausted (Woodworth, 2004, p. 175).…

For instance, the lobster paper is much lengthier than the whale shark paper. The whale shark paper also looks more like an article than the lobster paper does. The lobster paper is clearly broken up into different sections, including the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and conclusions. However, the whale shark…

a “medieval torture-fest.” Within the same page of the article, Wallace calls exactly what he is doing himself “selfishly convenient.” I have a hard time understanding why he went to such great lengths bashing the Maine Lobster Festival and everyone at home who tortures lobsters for the sake of a pleasurable meal when he in turn is doing the equivalent. Whether or not he physically kills or witnesses the killing of the animal he’s consuming, doesn’t necessarily mean it had lived a full…

total (dotted line) and total catch in the Cuban spiny lobster fishery. The log-likelihood resulting from the fitting of the environmental models show a best fitting for the model with the total values for catch and effort (Table 2). Because it provided lower values for the components (mainly for catch…

restaurants, employing 150,000 people, and serving more than 320 million meals a year. In 2007, Darden sold Smokey Bones to Sun Capital Partners for about $80 million, At the time, Smokey Bones was Darden's third-largest restaurant chain, behind Red Lobster and Olive Garden. Smokey Bones was sold to Barbecue Integrated, Inc. who are responsible for owning and operating several bar and fire grill…

How the Lobster Became Fancy is an article written by Daniel Luzer and published by Pacific Standard Magazine. Although this article is intended to be an informal magazine article, it presents a lot of valid points on why David Foster Wallace wrote about “Consider(ing) the Lobster”, and supports the argument with other sources and a well-spoken opinion. The article is presented in a timeline, beginning from the start of when the lobster was first eaten as food – in the year 1622 as a food for…