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3:43 pm - 11/17/2012

Paul McCartney: “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.”

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Paul McCartney has delivered an anti-turkey Christmas message, telling people to go vegetarian this festive season.

The former Beatle appears in animal rights charity PETA's new Christmas advertising campaign, wearing an 'eat no turkey' t-shirt beneath the slogan, "celebrate life this holiday season, go vegetarian."

McCartney has also recorded a voiceover for the group's latest campaign video about the meat industry titled 'Glass Walls' after McCartney's quote, "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."

Speaking about what the McCartney household eats over Christmas, he says: "We eat a veggie roast at home, so if we have traditional moments like Christmas … the roast is perfect. It's completely vegetarian, but I can slice it, so I can do all my traditional dad things. We can do our family stuff with it, and it's delicious, so I much prefer that to my memory of turkey."

Paul McCartney is the latest musician to join PETA's campaign to promote animal rights. Joss Stone appeared naked in an anti-fur campaign.

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_storysofar 17th-Nov-2012 09:01 pm (UTC)
Yes, but there's a huge difference between the process of killing your own meat and what goes on in slaughterhouses. I think if people saw the process in slaughterhouses, it would at least change the way they think.
shangman 17th-Nov-2012 09:08 pm (UTC)
I think it would help with improving standards in slaughterhouses, but tbh the biggest shock I think for most people is the killing. People don't look at a burger and understand the realities of something dying and you eating that. I think that's what is similar to killing your own livestock, that you realise that your food comes from somewhere and that you cause some sort of suffering to get it.
I know many people who have seen horrible documentaries about the meat industry - I have too-, and it makes an impact for a bit and then you forget, or just don't care because meat tastes good, or you're too poor to pay for the better quality meat that had a higher standard of living.
karrixftw 17th-Nov-2012 09:10 pm (UTC)
I think it would change people's perspectives and we would probably be working more for free range meat and stuff, but idt we'd stop eating meat. Like, for almost all of human existence we've hunted/killed animals and ate them, it's just before we had slaughterhouses we treated the animals a shitload better.
vivisexion 17th-Nov-2012 10:01 pm (UTC)
i think it would make people uncomfortable, but i don't believe that it would actually make a significant portion of meat eaters go veg.
flightbyzephyr 18th-Nov-2012 01:48 am (UTC)
Really? I've seen it and the only really shocking part is how fast they go thought them and the muscle spasms. Defiantly not as bad as seeing, say, a lion just tear an animal apart.
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