EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Paul McCartney has called on Europeans to make at least one day a week meat-free in order to save the planet. Speaking in the European Parliament on Thursday, the former Beatle warned that eating meat was doing more damage to the earth's climate than any other activity. "The livestock industry produces more greenhouse gases than all of transport put together - cars planes trains trucking," he said. "They used to be what we thought were the villains, but it turns out the livestock industry is worse," he continued, noting that agriculture as a whole was responsible for between 20 and 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions,
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Paul McCartney has called on Europeans to make at least one day a week meat-free in order to save the planet.
Speaking in the European Parliament on Thursday, the former Beatle warned that eating meat was doing more damage to the earth's climate than any other activity.
"The livestock industry produces more greenhouse gases than all of transport put together - cars planes trains trucking," he said.
"They used to be what we thought were the villains, but it turns out the livestock industry is worse," he continued, noting that agriculture as a whole was responsible for between 20 and 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions,
Although, of course, fish stocks are suffering immensely so to be useful "meat" should really be understood with its true meaning, ie animal flesh that is used as food, which of course includes fish. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
"They used to be what we thought were the villains, but it turns out the livestock industry is worse," he continued, noting that agriculture as a whole was responsible for between 20 and 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions
Hey Paul! How about "screw free" Wednesdays as a form of birth control? Or how about Jack-Off Thursdays? In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
