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McCartney's Meat Free Mondays: Letting a Few Bad Apples Kill the Entire Tree

Paul McCartney has backed a campaign that calls for people to give up meat one day a week. Meat Free Mondays, the well-known vegetarian suggests, will help reduce livestock greenhouse gas emissions and help feed impoverished nations. McCartney made his case to the European Parliament earlier this month, meeting in Brussels with Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the United Nations' global climate change panel. Production of food accounts for 20 to 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, he said, and livestock production is responsible for around half of these emissions. Some members of the ...

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