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BOB
COMIS
Consider the
Slaughterhouse
THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE of
the farm, though not the whole
point, is to raise animals to
be slaughtered and butchered
so that we can eat their meat.
While this might seem simple
and straightforward, it is not.
I recently re-read David Foster
Wallace’s 2004 Gourmet magazine article “Consider the Lobster” in which his assignment to
report on the Maine Lobster Fest
turned into a discourse on the
ethics of eating lobster. I had long
since forgotten how one could
feel Foster Wallace’s own anxiety
coming through in almost every
HUFFINGTON
11.17.13