We're not the first ones to tell you this, probably. There's been a lot of talk about it, as there always is a lot of talk about whatever Oprah Winfrey does. But we don't quite get why people are up in arms over this.
I mean, didn't we tell you earlier this month about the model of The Great Wall of China built in chocolate? It isn't as though this is the first use of chocolate for sculpture (or building, if you can't quite see this described as "scultpure"). We've also shown you chocolate fashions, and it seems likely that that chocolate wasn't even eaten after its artistic use.
Is this actually more wasteful than the butter sculptures that used to be a feature of county fairs? Do you think all that food in movies and magazine photo shoots actually gets eaten? Do we need to talk about your Hallowe'en Jack o' Lanterns?
We hope there are plans to make proper use of the chocolate and that it won't all be thrown away, but we also think that there are worse things being done in the world.
