Like the people that makes those ridiculous sculptures out of chocolate or take a huge block of cheese and shape a bust out of it? Idk what they do with the food afterwards but it always seems like a massive waste or resources. Like sure these people have talent but is what they are making really worthy of consideration? Imagine being some poor cocoa farmer who’s basically a slave or just straight up is a slave and all you existence is to farm cocoa for chocolate that isn’t even consumed? Some asshole just shapes into a giraffe for some rich fuckers to look at then throw in the trash to rot after maybe taking a bite. Or having some 40lb block of cheddar who’s caloric density could feed a small family for days and they just cut it up to make a stop motion bust of some fucking cartoon character? You do the same shit with clay that I could dig up in my yard.
Every time I see one of these videos it just kind of pisses me off. Maybe I would feel different if there weren’t people starving and/or being horrifically exploited all over the planet.
Unless they’re going to eat it, I just think of it as a waste of food
Chocolate of itself is problematic, so whatever you do with it leaves a bad taste in your mouth regardless.
Knew a girl that made these over the top cakes for weddings and parties, and they were eaten actually.
In general, it is wasteful.
Yeah it’s one thing to make an actual dish to be eaten that’s fancy and decorative. Nothing at all wrong with that imo. It’s the wasteful stuff made purely for decoration and to serve someones ego I can’t stand.
Wasteful, there’s a hundred things to make sculptures of, and things that people need to live aren’t one of them, like I don’t think it’ll kill them if they used marble or clay yk, it’s like using a blood onors bag as an ink for writing.
it’s also very looked down upon to waste food here even macaroni art, we have an expression for it “waste of a blessing”
the guy who make massive chocolate things tries to make the edible, i heard, and the point of making things out of chocolate is that is melts and dries really easily. food art as long as it is edible afterwards is fine by me
Hot take: If food art is problematic, it is so only in a moral or aesthetic way, its actual material impact in terms of the amount of food that is rendered inedible is not worth discussing seriously. If you take away all the food that has been used for food art, the available food on Earth would still be enough to provide everyone with more than they need; hunger very obviously remains a systemic issue. The present harm done by food rotting away in dumpsters and landfills, GMO crops being illegal to sell and grow due to IP, the withholding of agricultural machinery from and the lack of technology tailored to the global South, the legacy of imperialism using soils in unsustainable manners and for unsuitable purposes, and the general waste and brutality inherent to all capitalist production is so enormous and horrifying that it dwarfs whatever caloric pocket change food art is responsible for; in fact, I bet even the amount of food that falls victim to the treacheries of housecats is a bigger issue.
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