BRUSSELS — Paul McCartney took his “Meat- Free Mondays” campaign to the European Parliament on Thursday, saying the power to halt global warming lies as much with individuals as with their governments.
McCartney met in Brussels with Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the U.N.’s global climate- change panel.
“I grew up as a kid not eating meat on Fridays,” McCartney told reporters. “It was part of the rules of the school I went to.”
The vegetarian said food production — from farm to fork — accounts for 20 to 30 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. Livestock production is responsible for about half that. Still, he admitted that his flight from London to Brussels, and on to Berlin for a concert later Thursday, had contributed to global warming.
“They haven’t invented microphones that work on candle power,” he said.
