The planetary boundary biosphere integrity is defined as “the functioning and persistence of biomes at broad scales” (Steffen et al., 2015, p.7). Extending beyond just biodiversity loss, it looks at how biomes function and persist despite challenges on large scales through genetic and functional diversity, which is the availability of diverse genetic material and its functional traits that influence the surrounding ecosystem (Steffen et al., 2015). There is no one way to quantify how biodiversity of matter contributes to the functioning of the earth, however, this ambiguity provides a great amount of flexibility when approaching the boundary of biosphere integrity and its potential correlations with the creative industry of the culinary arts. The chosen medium of this creative industry are cooking TV shows, which are noted to have significant influence on watchers, as well as linking chefs to influencing agricultural production (McCarthy, 2021; Elhoushy, 2022). The above poster examines how one show’s challenge in particular can impact biodiversity, namely through meat production, which is highly contested among culinary shows (Bauck, 2023). This impact can be both negative and positive, depending on the protein sources the chefs use and encourage. Overall, and despite limited biodiversity data, these shows pose significant influence on biodiversity through chef choice, watcher dietary habits, and their associated agricultural production.
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