Paul McCartney has called on COP30 organizers to remove meat from the menu of the climate change conference.
The Beatles icon – a dedicated vegetarian and animal rights champion – has penned an open letter through animal rights organization PETA to COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago regarding the choice to offer meat to attendees at the gathering, which kicks off next week in Belem, Brazil.
McCartney wrote: “I’m writing on behalf of my friends at PETA to ask you to align COP30’s menu with its mission by making it all vegetarian. This would greatly reduce its carbon footprint and overall environmental impact, setting a positive example for the world to follow.”
The 83-year-old rocker was dismayed by the limited vegetarian options available to attendees, especially given the serious threat that climate change poses to Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest.
The Let It Be performer stated: “It is fitting that COP30 will be held in Belem, the gateway to the Amazon, whose rainforest is often called ‘the lungs of the Earth’ because it absorbs and stores massive amounts of carbon dioxide while releasing oxygen.
Paul and his late wife, Linda McCartney, became vegetarians in 1975, and the music icon is proud to have been a pioneer of a diet that is now adopted by millions of people worldwide.
He shared: “It was a joint decision, definitely. We were both quite happy eating meat, because she was a great cook, and we didn’t really think about it until we were on the farm one day, eating a lamb dinner, and both realised that the lambs outside were what we were eating. We didn’t like that.
“We said, ‘Shall we try going vegetarian?’ And actually, it was a very exciting point in our lives, trying to think of what we would have to fill the hole in the middle of the plate.
“Now of course, it’s really not difficult at all. You just go down the shops, and most places will have great veggie options. It was a joint decision and we never looked back. It was a great thing to do, and it turned out we became part of a vegetarian revolution.”
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