Charge shoppers 79% more for bacon

Charge shoppers 79% more for bacon, say scientists behind 'life-saving' meat tax

EXPERTS are calling for the introduction of a potentially life-saving ‘meat tax’ saying it could end generations of deaths brought on by heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer.

Scientists claim a huge the hike in price – in the same way cigarettes and alcohol have been targeted - would bring a change of culture in the excessive consumption of red and processed meats has been linked to increase killer diseases.

But the move brought a warning that such a strategy could lead massively increased costs for everyday goods which industry insiders could even lead to a black market in cheaper underground bacon and other cheap cuts of meats.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17205263.charge-shoppers-79-more-for-bacon-say-scientists-behind-life-saving-meat-tax/

It will come as no surprise that the Lead researcher Dr Marco Springmann is vegan

What if we all turned vegan by 2050?

http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/interviews/what-if-we-all-turned-vegan-2050

It's coming, like it or not. I predicted the meat tax, and hopefully I won't still be alive to see it banned altogether. I also predict that the results will NOT be what you read in the Guardian, but this will continue to be denied for years if not decades, just like low fat. By the time this is realised it will be too late to go back.

I like the idea of underground bacon, reminds me of that Michael Palin film

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089838/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_32

chris c wrote:It's coming, like it or not. I predicted the meat tax, and hopefully I won't still be alive to see it banned altogether. I also predict that the results will NOT be what you read in the Guardian, but this will continue to be denied for years if not decades, just like low fat. By the time this is realised it will be too late to go back.

I like the idea of underground bacon, reminds me of that Michael Palin film

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089838/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_32

Hope your wrong Chris can't let the vegans take over  us meat eaters must stick together and fight back or we will be eating rabbit food along with fake meat products  

Loved the Palin clip 

Wait till they start rioting outside butchers shops like they do in France. The S.D.A. elders will have to take their membership in hand!

https://twitter.com/OZmandia/status/1052661216638726144

https://twitter.com/GrassBased/status/1056479072254132226

not many dieticians in that picture

A member of the government has a word on the tax

‘HANDS OFF my bacon!’ Liz Truss dismisses meat tax and calls it a ‘CLAPTRAP’

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1042492/red-meat-tax-bacon-liz-truss-pork-processed-meat-sausages-bad

Another comment wants an alternative tax on vegans 

'We should tax VEGANS!' Furious Brexiteer ATTACKS 'nonsense' meat tax

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1042090/Jeremy-Vine-Channel-5-vegan-meat-tax-Martin-Daubney-Vegans-NHS-William-Sitwell

Oh good, their dogma is starting to piss important people off.

I just had not one, not two but three Gloucester Old Spot sausages, with purple sprouting broccoli, and raised a glass of Carmenere to them.

Looks like DUK is trying to kill vegans off as well as us  omnivores   

Only 76.9g carbs 

 Aromatic pilaf made with pearl barley, packed with vegetables and topped with spicy tofu

https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/recipes/barley-pilaf-with-tofu

WHY??????

Take out the barley, rapeseed oil and tofu and greatly reduce the peas, add some meat and you might have a decent diabetic meal.

chris c wrote:WHY??????

Take out the barley, rapeseed oil and tofu and greatly reduce the peas, add some meat and you might have a decent diabetic meal.

But it's a vegan recipe   don't think they would be very pleased

Hey I eat a vegan diet along with my meat, poultry, game and fish, that works!

Yes it shows the problem though, animal protein comes with fat, some of which is saturated. Vegetable protein always comes with carbs.