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Fri 12 Dec 2009McCartney's call for meat-free Mondays falls flat with IFA
FORMER BEATLE Paul McCartney, who took his campaign to encourage people to stop eating meat for one day a week to the European Parliament, has fallen foul of Irish farmers and politicians.
McCartney, who believes such a move would protect the world from climate change, was accused by Irish Farmers’ Association president Pádraig Walshe of leading a “flawed campaign against meat” which was contradictory on climate change.
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