McCartneys and Yoko Ono Support Meat Free Monday

by Bee-Shyuan Chang (Subscribe to Bee-Shyuan Chang's posts), Posted Jun 15th 2009 at 9:00PM

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Just another Meat Free Monday. From left to right: Mary McCartney, Sir Paul McCartney and Stella McCartney turn out to launch this environmentally aware initiative. Photo: Getty Images

We've all heard of celebrities being vegetarians for ethical and/or health reasons, but the latest star push for the veggie lifestyle centers around climate change.

Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney (along with his daughters Mary and Stella) have come together in support of Meat Free Monday, a U.K.-based organization encouraging people to reduce meat consumption in order to cut carbon emissions.

According to Meat Free Monday, "The UK's Food Climate Research Network suggests that farm to fork is responsible for between 20-30 percent of global green house gas emissions. Livestock production is responsible for around half of these emissions."

To kick off the initiative, Ono and the McCartneys walked the event-appropriate green carpet at Inn The Park in London today (June 15).

For meat-lovers, giving up a juicy burger or pepperoni pizza once a week might not be the easiest thing, so the MFM website offers recipes and other helpful tips to help people get involved.

And while the program hasn't landed stateside yet, U.S. celebrities such as Kate Bosworth have already signed on.

Would you give up meat once a week for the environment? Or are you already a vegetarian? Leave a comment below.

Filed under: Stylish Living
Tags: diet, mccartneys, meat-free-monday, Paul-McCartney, Stella-McCartney, vegetarian, Yoko-Ono

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Raejean 6-16-2009 @ 1:11AM

I grew up Catholic and of course we did this on Fridays for devotional reasons, not to mention fasting and/or serious curtailing meat and sweets intake throughout Lent. Not a bad idea. I think we should all reduce our meat consumption to two or three times a week for health and economic reasons.

I appreciate the fact that this is NOT being presented as a absolute, moralistic manifesto, where it's the 100% vegan way or the highway. Gives the idea that we can all do quite well on less animal protein a chance to take hold.

aeolipile1 6-16-2009 @ 1:12AM

i'm awready a vegetarian. good for yoko ono and paul mccartney and his wonderful family! - bobby cormier

janet 7-10-2009 @ 5:20PM

great for all of them, -i try to do chicken & fish...however, oh no yoko was certainly a maneater, wasn't she?

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