Paul McCartney Advocates Meat Free Mondays to Aid the Environment

Sir Paul McCartney—legendary musician, environmental activist and longtime vegetarian—today led a star-studded appeal for people in Britain and elsewhere to practice “meat free Mondays” and adopt a vegetarian lifestyle one day a week.

McCartney said that having even one meat-free day per week would help to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases, alleviate global hunger, improve human health and increase the ethical treatment of animals. Joining McCartney for the announcement were his daughters, Mary and Stella McCartney, John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono, and a host of other celebrities.

“I thought this was a great idea. To just reduce your meat intake maybe by one day a week and this would seriously benefit the planet,” McCartney told reporters.

“It’s kind of easy to do,” he said. “You’ve had too much over the weekend, anyway, and you’re all running down to the gym to try and work it off, so just have a meat-free Monday.”

To learn more, see the Meat Free Mondays website.