Paul and Linda McCartney
British musicians and animal activists
Paul McCartney, one of the original Beatles, married Linda McCartney 1969
Linda (1941-1998)
Paul (1942 -)
“We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch
we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily
in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were
eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field
herself. We looked at each other and said, ‘Wait a minute, we love these sheep –
they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?’ It was the last time
we ever did.”
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel
better about ourselves and better about the amimals, knowing we're not
contributing to their pain.”