David Foster Wallace's classic piece 'Consider The Lobster' [1] in Gourmet magazine is a fine piece of writing exploring many of these questions in the context

David Foster Wallace's classic piece 'Consider The Lobster' [1] in Gourmet magazine is a fine piece of writing exploring many of these questions in the context of visiting the Maine Lobster festival: Originally published in the August 2004 issue of Gourmet magazine, this review of the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival generated some controversy among the readers of the culinary magazine. The essay is concerned with the ethics of boiling a creature alive in order to enhance the consumer's pleasure, including a discussion of lobster sensory neurons. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150623174527/http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150623174527/http://www.gourme... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster