Heather Mills Speaks and Vegans Across the World Shudder

The thing is with Heather Mills is that you think she might have half a point some of the time, but then she goes and wrecks it all by going way, way too far.   

Yesterday Mills stood up at the Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, London, to speak, not about her tortured public life as the estranged wife of Paul McCartney, but as the spokesperson for Viva, a pro-vegan organization.  Some clever person over there has opted to use Mills for their latest PR campaign. (Presumably Pamela Anderson was booked).

Ok... Fair enough.

Her message: The fact that we eat meat and drink milk, we contribute to global warming.

(Yep. Yep...  She's got a point.  I really should be upping the tofu and soy latte intake, m'self)

"There are many other kinds of milk available." (yes, Heather, you are right).

"Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?" 

Say what???

And that's where she lost me, and potentially the CEO of Viva whose blood must have run cold (unless the Viva PR person put that little nugget in her head, and if so, that person should be shot at dawn).

There's nothing like a little suggestion of 'milking' Tibbles or a nice rat to completely obscure any positive message about veganism and the environment.  Heather.  All we heard was the thing about the rats, woman.  A notion that is not only utterly gross, is clearly completely and utterly impractical.  (insert visual image of minute milking apparatus and rat farms here)

Comments

[Amanda]

My mind immediately went to that scene in "Meet the Parents" where Ben Stiller lies about milking a cat.

[Mouse]

My mind went to Simpsons; there's a scandal with rats' milk in one episode.

[Sils]

I'm a vegetarian (but not a vegan) and even I just went, "Oh jesus..."

Really, raising any animal to milk them would go against a Vegans beliefs, too. She's a moron.

[Suzy Q]

Seems like old Heather's finally gone completely 'round the bend!

[disnazzio]

Uh... Heather? Rats and dogs are animals. So then rat milk and dog milk are animal products. Animal products - wait for it - are not vegan. So... what's your point, then?

[Sam]

And drinking other animal's milk is more disgusting than drinking cow's milk? Sorry, but I try and stay away from drinking anything that comes from something's teat.

What I really want to know is, how could it possibly be cost-effective to milk a rat? You'd only get a thimble's worth at a time...

[A]

Here's what I'm confused about. Even if we stopped eating meat and milking cows and shit, there would still be cows and shit on the planet. They would still produce greenhouse gases or whatnot. Soooo...yeah.

[Kirsten]

Is it wrong that when I saw this come across in my bloglines reader, my brain saw "Heather Mills Speaks and Vaginas across the world shudder?"

*is totally squicked out now... thank you*

[Paco]

She is right, to a point. Cows contribute to a considerable degree the amount of greenhouse gases, specifically methane. She is also right that, if we didn't raise so many to meet the demand, the amount of gases would be reduced (so to answer the one question above, there would be fewer cows and less shit); however, as Joy points out, the woman begins with a lick of reason and then runs as far away from it as possible.