KnightontheSun , 2 months ago

This might not be popular, but in my opinion the world absolutely does not need a “Major League Eating” organization or competitive eating contests.

Competitive eating has no reasonable place when there is so much food insecurity around us. Even moreso when there are people going hungry within the same country as the competition. I’ll even wager there are people within a mile of it that would greatly appreciate one of the fifty hot dogs a competitor eats.

In my limited view, it appears to me as an overt display in food gorging and over-consumption. Is this a skill to aspire to? Perhaps it had a place when showing the world how successful we were as a nation, but now it just seems gross as the optics (in my view) have changed.

The rest of the world is competing by simply vying for food. Any food.

/rant