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“For your people, for your children and for the planet they will inherit–go meat-free one day.”

–Paul McCartney, taking his message of Meat-Free Mondays to the European Parliament.

He addressed an audience in Brussels to encourage the idea of skipping meat at least one day a week for the good of the planet.

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“Her clothes are just as elegant as any line that uses animals.”

–Jessica Alba, on the vegetarian fashion designer who pledges no use of fur or leather in her collections. Stella recently unveiled her autumn/winter 2013 ready-to-wear collection at Paris Fashion Week.

Other celebrities who attended the event include U2 singer Bono, actress Nicole Richie and father and singer Paul McCartney.

Photo: pinguino k/Creative Commons

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Paul McCartney has made a statement regarding the controversy of horse meat showing up in the meat supply.

On the topic of supermarkets in the UK selling ready made meals that actually contained horse meat instead of beef, McCartney said the revelation was “scandalous.”

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Paul McCartney is a longtime vegetarian.

He plays an important role in the decisions made by Linda McCartney Foods, the company created by late wife Linda that manufactures ready-made, vegetarian frozen foods.

He heads the Meat-Free Monday campaign, an initiative in the UK that encourages eating less meat to preserve the environment.

But there was a time when he thought vegetarians were “wimps.”

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Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello have collaborated in a new YouTube clip that is part of a series of advertisements to promote a new line of meat-free dishes in the Linda McCartney food brand.

Costello, a vegetarian since the early ’80s, said, “Linda always talked well and made it seem that you wouldn’t be joining a secret weird society by being vegetarian.”

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Paul McCartney‘s rider from his 2002 Driving USA tour has been published by The Smoking Gun.

As expected, the longtime vegetarian and animal rights advocate required the catering be entirely vegetarian.

Standing apart from the other print in boldface letters, the following paragraph is included on the document:

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Paul McCartney is getting his lifelong wish to appear in The Dandy comic book.

A favorite among children in the UK, the comic was something Paul enjoyed as a child and expressed an interested during a 1960s interview with NME to be featured in it.

Published in print form since 1937, The Dandy will now only be available in digital format, with McCartney making an appearance in its last issue this month.

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Paul McCartney has a message for all his fans and animal lovers.

Skip the turkey this Thanksgiving and opt for a vegetarian feast instead.

The longtime vegetarian and musician with the media that he and his family, “eat a veggie roast at home. I can slice it, so I do all my traditional dad things.”

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