Jackson Milano

Prof. Miller

English 110 H

28 March 2023

In life there are pros and cons to every day to day decision you make. On the one hand you may get self pleasure, but along with that self pleasure there may be some regret and grief with what seems like it made you happy, and this might make you overthink the decision entirely. It’s hard to think about how your decisions affect other people and groups when it makes you happy or satisfied, but certain things along your life will make you do just this. When indulging on your favorite meals you probably don’t think about where it came from. I mean, why would you? Who wants to take a bite out of a wonderful steak cooked to perfection and think about it getting butchered alive into shreds in a slaughterhouse? The food industry has been one over time that hasn’t been thought about and no one really cares to think about these animals growing up and living in horrible prison camp like conditions.  In David Foster Wallace’s “Consider The Lobster”, he discusses the dreadful cooking process of burning lobsters alive. These lobsters are high IQ creatures, and feel pain the same way we do, yet we treat them and slaughter them like they don’t matter. He also goes into detail about the Maine Lobster Festival, how hundreds of thousands of people make their way up to the coast of Maine to essentially witness a massacre of thousands of Lobsters. Another reading we read during our time in class “What The Crows Know” by Ross Anderson it talks about how different species of animals are just as if not more intelligent than us humans. With this being said it really is a double edged sword. The killing of animals for food is an uncomfortable thing for most people to process, but on the other hand the nutrients as well as the taste of these foods that come from animals are hard to replicate from artificial sources.