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Paul McCartney Says "Let It Be...Meat-Free Mondays"

Green Lifestyle (tags: paul mccartney, vegetarianism, peta, environmentalism, food )

Trish
- 96 days ago - popgoesgreen.com

Most people get their protein from meat, but did you know that you could go meat-free and also get it from bugs...like a beetle? Well, you can get knowledge about protein from a different kind of beetle. According to Paul McCartney, a pop culture icon fro

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Vadim G. (0)

Thursday July 10, 2008, 1:43 pm
Ah I just submitted this to Care2 also. I think this is a great idea and I hope it becomes a bigger staple in American culture and leads to mainstream acceptance of vegetarian lifestyles.

I was so inspired by this that I decided to start a campaign to get 150 people to commit to a meat-free Monday: https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/meatless-mc-cartney-mondays

Now I'm a vegetarian already so to compromise I'm going to eat vegan on Mondays to cut down my personal strain on the environment. But all other people, omnivores and vegetarians, should all join and commit to helping the environment. If we make this a common trend in the American diet we can do so much!