Eco-warrior and Labour donor wants Tobacco-style health warnings on packets of bacon

By Ciaran McGrath, Senior News Reporter

Dale Vince wants wellness warnings connected packets of bacon (Image: GETTY)

Millionaire eco-warrior and Labour Party donor Dale Vince has controversially called for "meat-shaming” measures akin to tobacco-style wellness warnings, to beryllium printed connected packets of bacon.

Mr Vince, 63, who is president of Forest Green Rovers FC, besides advocates hiding bacon down roller shutter doors and replacing cheerful pig branding with blunt warnings astir its interaction connected wellness and the environment.

Mr Vince pointed to the World Health Organisation’s 2015 classification of processed meats, including bacon, arsenic a Group One carcinogen, placing it alongside baccy successful presumption of crab risk.

In interviews with The Sunday Times and BBC Radio 4, helium explained: "We wouldn’t enactment the look of a blessed pig connected these packets if we were being honest.

"We should dainty bacon the mode we woody with tobacco, with plain packaging and pictures of diseased organs.”

Sir Keir Starmer speaks astatine Cop29 past week (Image: Getty)

Mr Vince, is besides pushing for a "meat tax" to discourage consumption, arguing that reducing nutrient and dairy intake is captious successful bid to amended nationalist wellness and combat clime change.

As CEO of greenish vigor steadfast Ecotricity, Mr Vince has teamed up with broadcaster Chris Packham to enactment Vegan FTA’s run for plant-based menus successful NHS hospitals.

He believes the authorities indispensable measurement successful to supply clearer dietary proposal and propulsion for systemic change.

He added: "Switching to much plant-based diets is the biggest azygous happening we tin bash for wellness and the planet.”

Dale Vince is the president of Forest Green FC and a committed environmentalist (Image: Getty)

While critics whitethorn question the feasibility of specified measures, Mr Vince - who successful 2011 banned Forest Green players from eating reddish nutrient - says urgent enactment is required to align nationalist behaviour with biology goals, declaring: "The authorities has a relation to pb the way.”

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, speaking astatine COP29 successful Baku, Azerbaijan past week, rejected the thought of dictating however radical unrecorded their lives.

He insisted: "We’re not going to commencement telling radical however to unrecorded their lives."

Mr Vince’s remark echo a 2022 survey from Delft University of Technology, which suggested adding “meat-shaming” informing stickers to nutrient products.

The projected labels included distressing images of suffering animals oregon deforestation, alongside messages specified arsenic "Animals endure erstwhile you devour meat" and "The Amazon rainforest is destroyed erstwhile you devour meat.”

The survey suggested specified labels triggered feelings of shame and reduced user inclination to acquisition meat.