Humans have been living on Earth for a very long time. But in just the last few thousand years we have become the most superior species on the planet due to our communication and ability to develop cultures of unique formalities. We constantly now keep increasing the advancement of our technologies and have an incredibly large system of obtaining the food required in order to feed the near 8 billion humans on earth. What I think many people overlook is how the animals we use to feed ourselves and even those we experiment with for our greater good as a species are treated before they are put down. Authors David Foster Wallace, Ross Anderson, and Hal Herzog all cover their point of views with their pieces “Consider the Lobster”, “Animals Like Us”, and, “What the Crows Know”. Each one of these authors makes a point that we as a society are unsure of how animals other than ourselves feel anything such as emotions, pain or even sight. Adding to that, since humans have now reached the top of the food chain, does that give us the right to decide the fate of all the other animals on earth? This doesn’t just isolate life and death either, it includes the way we treat them and what type of rights any basic living thing deserves.
The way we treat animals has a lot of grey area whether it is fair or not. David Foster Wallace’s article “Consider the Lobster” tackles this claim by discussing lobsters and the way humans treat them. I have been familiar with lobsters ever since I was a toddler. My grandparent’s house was right on the ocean and we would often go there for family dinners and a lot of the time lobster was the go to dinner. I
