Heather Mills has urged people to drink rats' milk in a bid to save the planet. The outspoken vegan campaigner claims eating meat and dairy is destroying the Earth and insists the milk of rats, cats and dogs would be a more eco-friendly dietary choice.

The former model - who arrived at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park in a petrol polluting 4x4 Mercedes yesterday to give her lecture - ranted: "Why don't we drink rats' milk, cats' milk or dogs' milk?"

"The startling truth is that animals farmed for meat and dairy are now one of the greatest threats to the planet."

"The United Nations last year issued a shocking report on the environmental damage being done by livestock. I became a vegetarian for health reasons. Then I found out about the awful animal abuse in factory farms and dairy herds and became a vegan."

"The easiest and most effective way of cutting our contribution is to change our diet and go vegan. It is that simple."

Heather - who is currently involved in a bitter divorce battle with estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney - currently appears in two adverts for Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva!) to encourage people to embrace a plant-based diet to save the world from global warming.

The adverts feature Heather demanding: "End your involvement in this vandalism overnight! Change your diet and change the world!"

Heather's first ad' features the line: "Hey Meaty, you're making me so hot!"

The former glamour model - who lost her left leg below the knee in a motorbike accident in 1993 - appears in a second advert which plays on her disability, warning meat-eaters: "You haven't got a leg to stand on!"

Viva! claim vegetarianism can halt the globe's rising temperatures, which they claim are the result of the methane created by flatulent livestock.

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READER COMMENTS (1)
November 20, 2007 - 10:55AM - Vicky
Heather was not advocating rat’s milk; journalists have shamefully misquoted her point which was that dinking cow’s milk is illogical. Lets get focused on the REAL issue that the campaign was higlighting.

The Livestock’s Long Shadow report from the United Nations says, and I quote “The Livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”.

This is what the campain that Heather is supporting was trying to highlight. To know the environmental impact of meat and dairy and then not even CUT DOWN is selfish beyond belief.
Go vegan if you can, there are lots of organsations like the Vegan Society who will help the vegan curious.
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