Ahead of the next stop of his tour in Seattle, United States, Starbucks headquarters, Sir Paul McCartney is asking the company to eliminate the surcharge it imposes on the prices of its drinks when the customer chooses to add plant-based milks.
In a letter to CEO Kevin Johnson, the British musician writes: “It recently struck me that Starbucks in the US has an additional charge for plant-based milk instead of cow's milk. I must say that this surprised me, as I understand that in other countries such as the United Kingdom and India, there is the same charge for both types of milk and I would like to kindly request that you consider this policy also at Starbucks USA.”
“My friends at PETA are campaigning for this. I sincerely hope that, for the future of the planet and animal welfare, I can implement this policy,” he added.
McCartney's letter comes before his concerts on May 2 and 3 at, coincidentally, the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.
Sir Paul also noted that numerous chains (including Philz Coffee, Panera Bread and Pret A Manger) offer dairy-free milk at no additional charge, and that even Starbucks in the UK recently dropped its vegan milk surcharge.
Paul Mccartney has been a vegetarian for decades. In an article he wrote for Weekend Magazine, he stated: “Becoming a vegetarian was, and still is, very important to me and my family and I can't believe how much things have changed since we first left meat. In the past, vegetarians were seen as a little weird, and the vegetarian food you could find was heavy and boring.”
“Today, plant-based eating is massive and it's about going vegan, not just vegetarian. I know that if Linda were with us now, she would love this plant-based revolution,” he added.
How did you decide to become a vegetarian so long ago?
“Linda and her family had always eaten meat and I was raised on very traditional British food,” she shared. “The center of a meal in our house when I was a child was meat, a cutlet, maybe, or a couple of sausages, with some potatoes and maybe some vegetables next to it, and I continued to eat meat as an adult. But one day, Linda and I were having Sunday lunch with the family on our farm in Scotland and looking out the window at the little lambs in the nearby fields.”
“We said how cute and beautiful they were, then we looked at our plates. We were eating leg of lamb. We were eating one of those little things that were running around happily outside. That was the turning point for us and that's how it all started,” he said.
Her children were very young at the time, but they sat them down and talked about it: “Our daughter Mary remembers that Linda and I said that we had decided not to eat meat because we didn't want any suffering to be on our plate. We told the children that they didn't have to become vegetarians too, but that we wouldn't cook meat at home again. It was okay, there was no resentment.”
“And to this day, all children, and their children, are vegetarians.”
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