CONSIDERTHELOBSTER | Monday, November 22, 2021

2:47 PM

#CONSIDERTHELOBSTER: decades after #DavidFosterWallace wrote a brilliant piece for Gourmet magazine, the complexity - and, erm, hypocrisy - of shifting moral and ethical boundaries on which animals are edible seems as inconsistent and arbitrary as ever. Some don’t distinguish between killing for food and torturing to death. Others might say a mimosa is sentient. Either way, a good review from Jonathan Birch and colleagues at the #LSE.