Just Stop Oil and Labour Party paymaster Dale Vince wants bacon sold like cigarettes, with grim cancer warnings and unbranded packs. The Telegraph has the story.
He said meat and dairy should come with health warnings, citing bacon in particular because it is carcinogenic.
He told the Sunday Times: “Changing what we eat is the biggest single thing we can do to reduce carbon emissions to improve human health.
“The role for government is to give us better advice, to put health warnings on meat and dairy products, to change the menu in the NHS and our public institutions.”
Mr. Vince, the boss of Ecotricity, the green energy firm, is a vegan. He said tobacco-style regulation should control bacon sales, after warnings by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2015 that “processed meats” were a group-one carcinogen. …
“The medical science is very clear that eating more plants and less animals is better for our health,” Mr. Vince said. “Also we know, for example, bacon is a carcinogen and it is classed by the WHO as a class one carcinogen alongside tobacco.
“Now look what we do with tobacco. We hide it behind roller shutter doors, we stick it in unbranded packages with pictures of diseased organs on the front. That’s how we deal with tobacco.
“Bacon? We stick it in a supermarket, we stick the face of a happy pig on it and we say to people, it’s OK. But we know that it’s not OK.”
He suggested a meat tax could be another way to deal with the problem.
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