To celebrate World Vegetarian Day on 1 October, PETA has teamed up
with food artist Prudence Staite to create portraits of Liverpool’s most
well-known vegetarians, including Sir Paul McCartney and John Bishop,
using only vegetables
A longtime vegetarian advocate, Sir Paul
told PETA, “Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the
poor fish, I realised, ‘I am killing him – all for the passing pleasure
it brings me.’ And something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched
him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to
me”.
John stopped eating meat in 1985 after seeing a cow being
slaughtered. He told an interviewer, “The cow was hanging up looking at
me as if to say, ‘You did this’”.
They have also depicted Smiths singer Morrissey. Never one to
shy away from the subject of vegetarian living, he said, "Nobody can
possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel
satisfied – they don't after all … so why take the life of an animal?
Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is
habit, and laziness and nothing else".
In addition to helping save many animals every year from the
horrors of the slaughterhouse, vegans and vegetarians are less prone to
developing cancer, obesity and diabetes than meat-eaters are. They also
have a lower carbon footprint. These are just some of the reasons why
millions of British people (including 20 per cent of 16- to
24-year-olds, according to the research group Mintel) have chosen to
ditch animal-derived foods.
For more information or to receive PETA’s free vegan starter kit, please visit PETA.org.uk.
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