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Former Beatle Paul McCartney is encouraging people to stop eating meat each Monday as a way to curb greenhouse gas from farm animals and help the environment, British and U.S. media reported this week.
The United Kingdom campaign, called Meat Free Monday, launched June 15 with support from other celebrities, including Yoko Ono and Kelly Osbourne.
One reason for this campaign to address global warming, according to a Bloomberg report, is that:
Cows, pigs and sheep bred for human consumption discharge millions of tons of methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Livestock accounts for about 18 percent of greenhouse gases, more than all the world’s cars, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has said.
