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McCartney and Yoko push 'meat-free Mondays'
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Posted on 06/16/2009 5:21:39 PM PDT by traumer

LONDON (AFP) — Beatles legend and famous vegetarian Paul McCartney was joined by John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono Monday to launch an appeal for "meat-free Mondays."

McCartney said going vegetarian, even for just one day a week, was good for the environment because of research suggesting it cuts greenhouse gas emissions from the world's livestock population.

"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," he told reporters, alongside Ono and a bevy of other stars including Kelly Osbourne and Moby.

Lennon's widow -- famously blamed for splitting up the Beatles, but clearly reconciled and on good terms with McCartney now -- added: "Give up one day and then it will be two days maybe. It's a very, very intelligent idea."

In a video on his website, McCartney noted that the campaign had already been launched in the United States and Australia.

"It?s kind of easy to do. 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," he said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalrights; animalwhackos; antimeat; beatles; food; macca; moby; thebeatles; veganism; yokoohno
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1 posted on 06/16/2009 5:21:39 PM PDT by traumer
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2 posted on 06/16/2009 5:22:31 PM PDT by traumer
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Two pieces of crap don’t make a rose.

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3 posted on 06/16/2009 5:23:02 PM PDT by Rashputin (blif)
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Back in the day, we used to have “meat free Fridays”. But, Vatican II took care of that. I suspect this will be met with the same fate.


4 posted on 06/16/2009 5:23:04 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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What a circus......


5 posted on 06/16/2009 5:23:28 PM PDT by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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I’m thinking about giving up insects 50 weeks out of the year. Not all insects. Just the beetles.


6 posted on 06/16/2009 5:24:00 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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So says rich people that can afford anything they want. Please....just go back to your $15,000 a day retreats.


7 posted on 06/16/2009 5:24:09 PM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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I'll order something from the cardiologist lovers menu on Monday. I love the ground pig: A whole boneless pig shoved into a grinder and fried up, just for you.
8 posted on 06/16/2009 5:25:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
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With Obama spending our money like it was his, we may soon have more then one day a week without meat … mayhap days without food. ;-)


9 posted on 06/16/2009 5:25:17 PM PDT by doc1019
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I vow to give up Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono forever, OK?

Now go away you morons. You are has-beens.


10 posted on 06/16/2009 5:25:38 PM PDT by 43north (11.04.08: the day America committed voluntary suicide)
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Apparently they are late to the party. Many Christians have been doing meatless Fridays a long time before Yoko and John were ever around.

Although maybe they don’t like it because it wasn’t started to be vegetarian, it was to prop up the local economy in the Italian fish markets.


11 posted on 06/16/2009 5:25:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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Somebody should tell them that Friday night is pizza night. It might give them a leg up.


12 posted on 06/16/2009 5:26:19 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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When was Yoko an ‘Is now’?


13 posted on 06/16/2009 5:27:11 PM PDT by Borges
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Go ahead, Yoko and Paul. You’re free to follow whatever dietary restrictions you want. Just leave us out of it.


14 posted on 06/16/2009 5:27:34 PM PDT by Eddings
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Rather silly to choose Monday as a meat free day.

Lots of families in the UK enjoy the Sunday roast and Monday is a day for left overs.

15 posted on 06/16/2009 5:28:00 PM PDT by Churchillspirit
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Paul, I will give up meat one day a week if you eat meat one day a week.


16 posted on 06/16/2009 5:30:28 PM PDT by feedback doctor (The first female president will be a Conservative Republican)
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If the world’s livestock populations are emitting all that dangerous greenhouse gas, shouldn’t we be doing the earth a favor and eating MORE of them. ;-)


17 posted on 06/16/2009 5:30:37 PM PDT by grateful
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I knew a girl who was a vegetarian but sure liked the bone.


18 posted on 06/16/2009 5:30:47 PM PDT by fortunate sun (Tell me what books you want to ban and I'll tell you what type of politics you hold.)
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Meat free Mondays are fine with me, but what is the Veggie free day? How about veggie free Thursdays? Cow only Tuesday’s? Pork and cream Wednesdays? Lets gave some real diversity here. Its for the children don’t you know.


19 posted on 06/16/2009 5:30:47 PM PDT by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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20 posted on 06/16/2009 5:30:59 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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