Green millionaire wants bacon packages to show health risks like cigarettes
Labour donor suggests putting warning labels on meat products to highlight cancer risks. The push comes alongside a campaign to make hospital food plant-based to reduce health risks and carbon footprint
Dale Vince‚ a well-known green-energy businessman has started a thought-provoking discussion about meat products health warnings (specifically targeting bacon) in mid-november 2024
The eco-minded multi-millionaire and Labour party supporter wants to see major changes in how we think about processed meats: bacon should carry health-warning labels just like cigarette packages do. The WHO marked these products as cancer-causing about 9 years ago making them as dangerous as tobacco
The medical science is very clear that eating more plants and less animals is better for our health. Also we know bacon is a carcinogen and it is classed by the WHO as a class one carcinogen alongside tobacco
The green-energy boss wants to change NHS hospitals food system — his group works with non-profit Vegan FTA to make all patient meals plant-based. UN data shows farm animals create about 14% of human-made greenhouse gases which makes this change even more important
During the recent COP29 meeting in Baku Keir Starmer shared UKʼs plan to lower greenhouse gases by 81% by 2035. However the summit faced criticism when Azerbaijans leader called oil and gas “gifts from God“. Vince disagreed saying: “taking these super-important discussions into a petrostate“ wont bring good results
