Katy Perry‘s favourite source of royalties and the sole reason fifty per cent of Australians know how to spell croquembouche, MasterChef, has been referred to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Talk about spicy.
Comms Declare, a group that seeks to stop the promotion or marketing of fossil fuels, filed the official complaint to the ACCC with help from a team of lawyers from the Environmental Defenders Office.
Its main complaint is over a line used at the beginning of the show that claims the MasterChef kitchen is “going greener with renewable gas”. Comms Declare believe this may deceive Australians into thinking the gas used on the show is ‘green’ and ‘renewable’ when it believes the gas simply “causes pollution“.
The gas used in the MasterChef kitchen is biomethane gas, which is a special kind of fuel made from rotting waste. And yes, it is powering up the MasterChef…
