Dale Vince Calls For Bacon Health Warnings

According to eco-tycoon Dale Vince, bacon should have tobacco-style health warnings on its packaging since the meat raises the risk of cancer.

The millionaire Labour donor, 63, appeared to suggest treating the rashers like cigarettes by placing them behind ‘roller shutter doors’. 

Vince, who is a vegan, said we shouldn’t be putting a picture of a face of a ‘happy pig’ on the packs with the medical science ‘very clear that eating more plants and less animals is better for our health’.

The World Health Organisation in 2015 classified ‘processed meats’ as a class one carcinogen alongside tobacco, which means there is ‘sufficient’ proof that they induce cancer.

Vince, the CEO of green firm Ecotricity, even suggested introducing a ‘meat tax’ as a way to put people off consuming bacon.

Talking to The Sunday Times and BBC Radio 4’s A Week in Westminster, he said: ‘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.’

In support of the non-profit group Vegan FTA’s push for plant-based diets in NHS hospitals, Vince has joined Chris Packham.

He stated altering what we eat is the ‘biggest single thing we can do’ to make people healthier and lower carbon emissions.

‘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,’ he stated.

Sir Keir Starmer last week told the Cop29 climate meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, that he will not be ‘telling people how to live their lives’ despite placing an ambitious target to slash emissions in the UK by 81 pence by 2035. 

‘We are not going to start dictating to people what they do,’ the Prime Minister said. 

‘But we are going to be clear that that involves hitting the clean power 2030 mission that we have set out, one of the five big projects of the Government.’

Last year, scientists demanded that supermarket meat packets be labelled with health warnings similar to those on tobacco products to deter potential customers.

I’m tired of the government being pressured to impose their products on us by those with obvious interests in alternative endeavours. They ought to keep their distance from us and simply mind their own business.

There is a giant movement to substitute meat with another primary source of protein – insects, and it’s got nothing to do with climate change, or saving the planet, but it’s got everything to do with making an affordable, easily mass-produced product, which will then free up land for expansion and create huge profits for food producers. Of course, consumers won’t see the words ‘insects’ on the packets, they will just see the word ‘protein.’

Sometime in the future, we will be saying, ‘I can’t decide whether to have a bag of Smoky Crickets or Cockroach cocktail.’

After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. Because the rich buy influence. I was being sarcastic, but the donors get listened to more than the poor voters.

Political donations from any party or organisation to a political party or Member of Parliament should be prohibited, and no one should be able to purchase influence. We have the largest hypocrite in charge right now, greed is destroying the nation, and political honesty is at an all-time low.