The staff ate it later

I wish they put this on screen in Germany, too (though in German, maybe, instead of Japanese). In cooking shows, I always fear they throw the food in the gargabe. With that note on the screen, if they do throw it in the garbage, at least they would be evil liars. Which might be less likely, and so I could feel better.

And also in Youtube "I ate every dish on the menu at restaurant XYZ". I really like these, but man do I feel bad afterwards. Please tell me nothing went to waste!

Regardless of disclaimer, I’m sure the food cooked on TV going to waste is not the norm - dozens of people are on set when filming any of these shows, and they’re all curious to try the dish.

On French TV shows they state (verbally, not with a standard text shown on screen) that the leftovers are given to the Red Cross (and some to the staff).

You're engaging in a decadent activity (watching TV) that "wastes" all kinds of resources but are worried about this one in particular (food) even though we have more than enough of it to go around?

Yes. Ish.

I also think that whataboutism is cheap.

I disagree that it'S 'more than enough' and that 'more than enough' is a good reason to waste resources.

It's not whataboutism if what you are worrying about is a drop in the bucket of overall waste.

Food waste is utterly meaningless to the environmental cost of producing and streaming a TV show.

For instance, streaming anything in 4k takes an enormous amount of water and energy.

And if you'd read that on a real computer instead of a mobile device with a tiny screen you might actually understand it.

Sharing the mobile link is usually a curtesy to others that _might_ want to read it on a smaller device. I actually did read the desktop version.

To answer the question of your user ID: Pork, please.