The 63-year old – who has previously given money to Just Stop Oil, the protest group – is backing a campaign by Vegan FTA, a non-profit organisation, to make hospital food vegan.
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.
Scientists said there was “sufficient” evidence that the foods caused cancer, in particular colon cancer.
“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.
Cop29 controversy
Earlier this week, Sir Keir Starmer told the Cop29 summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, that he was committed to cutting UK greenhouse emissions by 81 per cent by 2035.
The summit has been mired in controversy, with a former UN secretary-general dubbing it no longer fit for purpose.
Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani president, told world leaders that his country’s oil and gas resources were a “gift from God”.
