THE VIDEO SHELF · animal ethics essay
David Foster Wallace reads "Consider the Lobster" (on the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival)
A reading of David Foster Wallace's essay Consider the Lobster, about the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival and the ethics of boiling lobsters alive. The reading runs about 50 minutes.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked in threads about lobster welfare as an easy way to take in Wallace's essay.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Manufacturing Intellect
- Topic
- animal ethics essay
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2020
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From the original HN conversations
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Love that whole series of essays in the Consider the Lobster collection - you can also listen to several of them on YouTube and I have to say Wallace’s tone when reading the essays makes them more enjoyable [VIDEO]
sharkweek on Hacker News · 2018-02
In In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster> They don't have brains or central nervous systems, I would very highly recommend reading David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster . You can either buy the book of the same name which includes other essays or here's a PDF of the original article: [LINK] …
unmole on Hacker News · 2019-03
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