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McCartney’s Meatless Monday movie

Sir Paul McCartney is a gifted musical artist.  In his former Beatles life as well as in his solo career, he has always been at the top of the popular musical scene even now at the tender age of 75.  After meeting his future wife Linda, a vegan, he joined her in that gastronomic choice.  Now, however, he is proselyting for others to join him in this vegan lifestyle by promoting a new movie that extolls the virtues of a non-meat eating day per week. Ok, my concern isn’t the movie.  After having viewed it a few times, I can say that it is professionally produced, but factually disingenuous.  However, it is provocative because of its hyperbolic, in fact, incendiary statements.  Sir Paul, his daughters, plus Woody and Emma ask you throughout the movie to simply avoid eating meat for only one day a week. On its surface, such an appeal seems quite innocent and plausible.  I mean we can do anything for only one day a week can’t we?No, my concern is the movie’s underlying premise that meat is not only bad for you but animal agriculture is the progenitor of the earth’s atmospheric destruction.  Holy cow!  Cow burps and farts are the principal cause of the hole in the ozone?  Give me a break.  But there’s more.

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