Nope, not just you. You don’t have to assume that the food they eat would otherwise be destined for the starving to think they are an obscene demonstration of first world excess.
People aren’t starving because of the food eaten by others. People are starving because of the food that gets thrown away.
Also not true, people are starving largely due to logistics.
Moving a lot of food costs a lot of money and when you’re already giving it away for free the cost of transportation is ruinous.
No farmer wants to let the food they produce rot but none of them can afford to send it where it’s needed most.
Why don’t those starving people just go do one of those restaurant challenges where your food is free if you can finish it the entire thing?
Just you
I don’t see the shows contributing to world hunger.
It’s just you.
You can not like these shows. I also don’t like them - mostly because I find them gross and boring. I personally have solved this problem by nit watching them. But the idea that these shows in particular have anything to do with world hunger is a big logical leap that doesn’t pan out. You could make the same claim about every cooking show ever. Or really, every tv show ever, since tv shows cost millions of dollars to make that could be going to solve world hunger.
And zooming out further, hunger is a complex socio-political problem that has less to do with the existance of food or money, and more to do with the various complexities of sustainably delivering that food to where it is needed in a timely fashion. Man vs Food guy is, i dunno, setting a bad example for children by giving himself heart disease. But the 37 cheeseburgers he eats every episode are negligible and inconsequential when it comes to solving the problems of world hunger. Solving hunger has more to do with, like, gradually giving people in developing nations pathways to education so they can have economic alternatives other than lithium mines, which give them the time, energy, and social capital to overthrow their autocratic warlord leaders.
Mom: clean your plate there’s starving people in the world Me: give it to them
People aren’t starving in the states. There’s already been major backlash & preemptive preventative response to the SNAP debacle. Food banks are mega stocking up. Some states are digging into financial reserves to provide uninterrupted SNAP benefits.
