From the Daily Mail, July 1:
NatWest angers farmers by urging customers to buy less red meat and replace dairy products with plant-based alternatives
A 'carbon footprint tracker' uses transaction data based on spending habits
NatWest has angered British farmers by urging its customers to buy less red meat and to replace dairy products with plant-based alternatives.
A 'carbon footprint tracker' on the bank's mobile app uses transaction data to advise customers on how to reduce their carbon footprint based on their spending habits.
The app recommends 'veggie Mondays' and 'choosing (mostly) plant-based' diets to customers as a way to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
It also suggests buying 'more second-hand clothes' and taking 'fewer flights' — and has thousands of users who can 'opt in' to receive a monthly carbon score.
But the National Farmer's Union (NFU) has criticised NatWest for promoting 'oversimplified' messages that 'miss the nuance of the path to a sustainable food system'.
NatWest mobile banking app recommended 'Swap out beef' to reduce your carbon footprint by 12kg...
....MUCH MORE
From here it's just a hop, skip and a jump to NatWest cutting off your access to banking if they don't like your dietary choices.
Not kidding.
Coutts, now a division of NatWest and formerly known for being Queen Elizabeth's bank was the financial entity that famously debanked Nigel Farage last year, lied about it, and got the BBC to lie about it:
Nigel Farage and NatWest: A timeline of what happened
UK watchdog steps into row over 'debanking' of Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage: BBC apologises to Farage over account closure story
See also Canada's Trudeau and Freeland in 2022:
Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters' bank accounts
Court Finds Trudeau Overreached by Using Emergency Law to End Blockade
