SIR Paul McCartney shrugged off attacks on his “Meat-Free Monday” campaign and called for a global effort to change eating habits and help save the planet from global warming.
He took the meat-free message to Brussels and told a European Parliament conference that it was possible to adapt – and that one day’s less meat-eating a week could have a major impact on overall effort to cut CO² emissions. He said: “This isn’t just me, a vegetarian, banging on: it was a United Nations report that got me interested.”
Merseyside Euro-MP Paul Nuttall had tried to make light of Sir Paul’s beliefs by inviting him to a UK Independence Party barbecue.
Mr Nuttall, himself a Liverpudlian, said: “The whole thing is a con. The EU is using climate change to justify its own existence.”
