I’ve been banging on about this for half a decade - bacon causes cancer, it’s rated as a class 1 carcinogen by the World Health Organisation - alongside tobacco. Yes, tobacco. We control tobacco with a branding and advertising ban, hideous pictures of diseased organs on the packaging and we keep it behind roller shutter doors. Out of sight in shops. Bacon on the other hand, sits in consumer friendly, inviting, branded shrink wrapped - openly in shop. Maybe with a picture of a happy pig face. It has no health warnings, it’s presented as safe by the very fact that it is presented in this way. When will we have a government that stands up to the big food lobby and gives us proper food advice, based on the science - and regulates the presentation of harmful foods, like meat and dairy, with health warnings. The Tories might refer to this as the 'nanny state’ - it’s actually the state doing its job, protecting us. And the Tories have their own version anyway - maybe you’d call it the ‘dark nanny state’ - ten years ago they regulated to force schools to feed meat and dairy to our kids - at the behest of big business interests no doubt. People first. That’s the right approach. buff.ly/ibcj3Bj