How To Kill A Lobster: Trevor Corson, author of "The Secret Life of Lobsters", offers a photo guide to killing lobsters, in response to a "rambling and factually inaccurate" essay by David Foster Wallace.
"SALON: . . . The novelist David Foster Wallace wrote a long feature about lobsters in the August issue of Gourmet magazine. Some of the quotes I saw indicated that he might not agree with your assessment.
TREVOR CORSON: I have to say, having read that piece, it made me wonder where his reputation for brilliance comes from. As far as I could tell, he got almost everything wrong he could about lobsters and lobstering. And he misses very interesting points, sometimes stumbling over them. . . . He's trying to earn all these big moral points by taking this stance about cruelty to lobsters. That view represents a misallocation of moral concern. People put all this worry on lobsters because they see them going in the pot. But these other meats we don't see are treated much, much worse." Link
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