Week 7/8 Reading (Consider the Lobster)

The beginning of this passage kept me guessing at exactly where the author was going with this. Something about the mixture of tourism and lobster was mentioned so I was pretty sure it was going to be some kind of analysis of  how the world can learn something from that. The description of all the events at the MLF made me wonder how that all came to be and ironically when the author went into all the taxonomic facts about the lobster that were supposed to be boring I was extremely interested. The author used that to transition back into the social and tourism side of eating lobster which worked well. Then transitioning back to the lobster festival  through some history of lobster eating and then going over in plenty of detail more about lobster as food, the author gives the reader all the background information that's necessary and then takes the subject to a place I didn't expect, the ethics of lobster. The details the author goes into about the actual process of killing a lobster make everything she says clear, but she makes sure to point out that her point is not whether or not it is ethical to eat lobster, which is what I like about this reading. The author wanted to make people think about it, and that's what happened.