China Starts to Makes Mukbang Videos as Illegal As They Are Promoting High Food Wastage
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China recently has made some changes to their current legislation by adding some extra called the anti-food waste law where the law originates from an anti-food waste campaign that kickstarted in 2020 by President Xi Jinping who felt that food wastage is becoming a huge problem that threatened the nation’s food security. This ban is where they ban diners from ordering food more than they need in restaurants and also prohibits the sharing and filming of binge eating videos or more commonly known as mukbang videos.
These videos are now being taken down on Chinese social media sites where TV and media companies can also be fined up to 16,000 USD (RM65,800) if they were caught producing or showing “binge-eating” videos. Restaurants will also be fined up to 1,550 USD (RM6,374) if they were caught promoting excessive ordering (which leads to food wastage).
source youtube