While reading the Consider the Lobster, I couldn't help but to wonder what life would be like if humans didn't eat lobsters. First off, Red Lobster wouldn't exist. Also, buffets would be less popular, considering how many people (my parents) only go to buffets to eat lobster. There's an infinite amount of what if's about how the world would be different if humans didn't do certain things. However, those who eat meat, whether it's lobster meat or beef have already accepted the fact that their food was once living, moving just as they themselves do. If this wasn't the case, then they would simply refuse to eat meat and be vegetarians. Even so, us humans have assigned the task of butchering these once breathing forms of sustenance to others, just so we ourselves do not have to feel the guilt of killing an animal. Therefore, like Wallace himself admits that he hasn't "succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system" for which the issue of killing lobsters will make him change is eating habits. In the world, there are predators and prey to keep species populations under control. WIthout us humans, lobsters could possibly be so plentiful that they eventually outnumber us and enslave the human race. Therefore, us lobster-eaters are in fact saving the world. 8)