Meat-free Mondays?

Singer Paul McCartney's meat protest is intended to spotlight the destruction of wildlife in the soy industry (used to feed animals), which FOE Senior Food Campaigner Clare Oxborrow called, "the killer link in a hidden chain". In a press release, FOE said the meat production industry is responsible for forest destruction and killing wildlife because of the two billion tonnes of soy the UK imports each year. Soy is largely grown in the tropical rain forests of Brazil, and soy planters destroy thousands of acres of forest a year to be able to produce the large demand. In addition, FOE claims the government spends millions a year on large factory farms, which remove smaller, homegrown farms that "produce home-grown animal feeds and alternative breeds."