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Paul McCartney, the original veg celeb, is plugging the Meat Free Mondays campaign in the UK. Read below to see what other celebs are going meatless. Photo via Flickr: Sander Lamme

I try to keep things politically oriented on this blog, but when I heard that my favorite fashionista Kate Moss (yes, tree huggers care about style, too) had decided to give Meatless Monday a go, I thought, What the heck — let’s start the week off with a fluffy, fun celebrity piece. Admit it: As much as we all denounce the incessant celeb chatter for distracting us from the more important issues at hand, what Moss and other stars do and say have a resounding influence on the rest of us. And in this case, it’s for a good cause.

Here’s a look at some of the celebs who are now going meatless on Mondays:

Photo via Flickr: Deon Maritz

Kate Moss

The Brit beauty may be forever photographed wearing fur, but The Sun reported earlier this year that Kate will be keeping Mondays meat-free to appease her friend and longtime vegetarian Stella McCartney.

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Photo via Flickr: Nyer8

Gwyneth Paltrow

The Oscar-winning actress has long-since ditched her devotion to a mostly veg-based macrobiotic diet, but she’s still conscious of the environmental ramifications of meat consumption. That’s why she’s promoting the UK’s Meat Free Mondays on her green lifestyle blog, Goop.

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Photo via Wikimedia: Wiki edit Jonny

Simon Cowell

The American Idol judge is famously all bark and no bite — at least when it comes to eating burgers on Mondays: According to Ecorazzi, Cowell recently agreed to go veg one day a week at the behest of British pop star and devoted animal rights activist Leona Lewis.

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Photo via Flickr: Freedom to Marry

Antonio Villaraigosa

The dashing Los Angeles mayor is fitter than ever before: In a Los Angeles Times interview in January, he boasted about his recent 20-pound weight loss, thanks to regular yoga workouts and a healthy eating plan that includes Meatless Mondays.

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Want to find out what other movers and shakers are going meatless? Check out Meatless Monday’s Who’s Going Meatless? page.

–Jennifer Grayson

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