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Paul McCartney’s Meat Free Monday pledges to be presented to the UN today
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 23 September 2014
Paul McCartney has called on the public to join him in supporting the Meat Free Mondays campaign, ahead of today’s UN Climate Summit in New York.
The campaign was launched earlier this month by Paul and Stella McCartney and David Cameron’s energy and climate advisor Greg Barker, and aims to highlight and do something about the fact that our reliance on meat for food globally has arguably become unsustainable.
And while McCartney himself would probably prefer it if we all just went vegetarian, his campaign points out that if everyone cut out meat on just one day of the week – a Monday, say – it would go some way to making a difference. Maybe this week we’ll not run the Beef Of The Week column in recognition (though that does go out on a Friday, so probably wouldn’t please Macca).
Anyway, ahead of today’s meeting of world leaders to discuss how they’re not going to bother saving the human race from certain extinction while there’s still oil money to be made, McCartney last week made a new plea for support. Some might say that the video in which the plea is made is slightly shoddy, but as well as raising awareness, it also shows off the wide array of accents Macca can do (if not control). He sort of does a rap too.
Watch it here:
