Sir Paul McCartney has recorded a rap song to encourage people to go vegetarian.
The
Beatles frontman enlisted the help of his famous friends, Joanna
Lumley, Twiggy, Sharleen Spiteri and Woody Harrelson to shoot a video of
him rapping to promote a Meat-Free Mondays campaign in an attempt to
get people all over the world to make their diet flesh-free once a week.
In
the video, which was posted on YouTube, he says: ''I need your help,
all I want you to do is just log in on pledge.meatfreemondays.com and
pledge your support to the idea of meat-free Mondays.
''Please do it. We'll send all these pledges to the politicians, and then they'll do something about it.''
The
72-year-old star's musical appeal to ditch meaty treats sees him
holding up signs emblazoned with the message ''Meat-Free Monday'' and he
gets very animated by clicking his fingers as well as clapping his
hands throughout.
TV and radio presenter Fearne Cotton and Paul's
daughters, designer Stella McCartney and Mary also make an appearance in
the music video.
More than 843,000 people - including famous
faces such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Spacey and Ricky
Gervais - have signed up to the pledge.
Paul's plea comes ahead of the United Nations climate summit tomorrow (23.09.14) in New York.
UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is gathering together global leaders -
the first time Heads of State will have come together to discuss climate
change since Copenhagen in 2009.
The summit is being held to
jump-start the climate negotiations that are due to conclude with an
ambitious global treaty in December 2015.