I used to watch a lot of cooking/food shows on TV before I went 811rv about 5 months ago. Lately though I still find myself watching some shows...
It is difficult to watch a cooking show if they are using any meat because then I start thinking about where it came from and such, but other times it's less apparent if the show is not entirely focused on the food. For example: I like watching Dinner Impossible. This show is not really focused on the food. It's about the crazy circumstances and things the cooks have to do on a given episode to meet the demands of place they are cooking for.
I also like watching Good Eats as the host is entertaining, especially when the episode is focused on fruit. The host Alton Brown likes to talk more about the history and culture of the food and when the episode is focused on fruit this is pretty neat.
This is how I feel, but then I start to wonder. Is just watching a cooking show where 99% of the time they are cooking meat and diary mean that I'm supporting this by giving the channel ratings? I'm not sure what to think, but I always start to ponder to myself when I see any food on TV. I definitely view food on TV differently now that I'm a vegan.
What do y'all think?
Permalink Reply by Lori Bananas on I love Restaurant Impossible! All in all I really do like food shows, even if sometimes they cook using foods I don't eat. For the most part I really can't say I watch the Paula Deen type shows that OD on the butter and sugar, but I seriously do appreciate the ones like Iron Chef and Chopped. These are pretty talented people with very interesting flavor palates. It's more like watching food art than anything. Doesn't make me want to run out and eat the stuff though.
Permalink Reply by Brian on Yeah the food definitely isn't appealing on T.V. Well, except the fruit!
Permalink Reply by Paxkey * on i think watching a murder mystery, horror movie or cop show does not mean you support rape murder and violence.
not sure if that is a fair comparison.
but who doesnt like to watch some rookie chef quaking in their boots while gordon ramsay tears them a new one.
i embrace the complex and paradoxical nature of my frailty and lack of diehard all encompassing convictions.
casual tv watching is an inane and surreal pursuit at best and a hard habit to break.
Permalink Reply by dangermouse on i embrace the complex and paradoxical nature of my frailty and lack of diehard all encompassing convictions.
Haha. Awesome.
Permalink Reply by Leslie on I used to watch them but now I just find myself very put off by the "food".
Nowadays I don't even watch TV in general because it just doesn't interest me anymore.
Permalink Reply by Mary Elizabeth on Food shows are fun, but yes the ratings of the shows go up and down and producers take notice! If ratings go up when they put on the fatty greasy meat shows, they notice, if you turn off your set when they come on, they notice. If more and more people turn off their sets when these things come one, they notice. Think of all of the new interest in organic and local food shows. They see what people are buying, what they are talking about, what they are watfching and they want in. Do you think Kellog bought out Kashi because they like to make people healthy? no. They wanted in on the $$$. Their job is to find out what interests you. and when you change the channel.
Permalink Reply by dangermouse on TV is a brainless waste of time. But sometimes I need that. And when I do I mostly watch food shows. I steal all my shows, though; so I don't have to worry about showing support for anything.
Permalink Reply by Christopher Oswalt on Agree - brainless waste of time.
Permalink Reply by Nickalas Angel on +1
Permalink Reply by Brian on This post kind of branched out into T.V in general when I was just asking about the "Food shows" on T.V.
Maybe I should make another thread about "Food in movies" lol.
Permalink Reply by Heather Bhagat on You can't generalize TV as being a brainless waste of time. There are LOTS of good documentaries and informative tv shows. Channels like animal planet, the discovery channel, history channel and national geo wouldn't be really 'brainless'.
Permalink Reply by Universal Mind on I believe there are many very informative and worth watching shows that television happens to produce. Surgery and real medical shows, public access educational shows, shows with informative information about our planet and inhabiting animals (thank you Discovery for helping co-produce Planet Earth), and interesting information from our past.
However, all of this material is also available for you to purchase (and support the people that directly produce it), rent from a library for free, watch on the Internet for free, research for free, read books about it for free, or rent from movie stores or netflix. You can do all of this without supporting the completely asinine advertisements that are forced down the throats of many individuals that cannot help but believe most every word the zombie box tells them.
Just about every single product that is advertised on TV is absolute garbage. It is a complete step backward and a ball and chain on progress in the movement that everyone on 30BAD is, hopefully knowingly, apart of.
Thousands upon thousands of pounds of useless consumeristic non-biodegradable scrap. Items people don't really need and only believe they do because the glowing box said they did! The support of never ending false health information, animal cruelty, and a promotion of a completely scripted idiocentric lifestyle. All this garbage, manufactured solely so some man at the top of a capitalistic pyramid can sit on a throne made of gold, whilst catapulting $1000 wedding cakes at armless deaf midgets tap dancing on the back of a Sumatran Rhinoceros. All to feed egos and distract the populace from the real problems of the world.
It's understandable that the 'good' channels need these advertisers to keep their station alive and more available to the masses. And I'm sure the CEO of Discovery, David Zaslav, is sitting mighty comfortably on his $50 million dollar a year salary. I personally kind of find it hard to trust anyone who believes they need more than $50,000 per year to live luxuriously. But I guess when you need to fuel your private jet and visit one of your 6 homes while promoting making money off promoting 'sustainable living', you gotta have the big bucks, right? Kind of like how the TV personality Oprah Winfrey, makes $300 million a year and yet she is praised by so many people for basically, in comparison to how much she earns, giving away the change that gets left in her dryer after doing laundry.
Oh, and Fox News Corporation.
That is all.
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