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Heather Mills' latest bizarre rant: 'Why don't we drink milk from rats and dogs?'
Last updated at 08:53am on 20.11.07
Making a point: Heather Mills at the poster launch
Media-shy Heather started off by storming out of a radio interview with London's LBC station.
She then drove a gas-guzzling Mercedes 4x4 to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park to speak about ecological matters - and kept the engine running for part of the morning.
Once there she proceeded to launch into an extraordinary ecological rant and exhorted the assembled crowds to try drinking rat's milk instead of cow's milk in a bid to save the planet from deforestation for livestock.
She said that livestock created far more carbon emissions than transport, so we should go vegan - someone who eats no meat or dairy produce - or at least find something else to put in tea or coffee.
At Speakers Corner in Hyde Park she said: "There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?"
Vegan Mills was supposed to be launching a poster campaign for an animal welfare charity.
Yet some observers couldn't help wondering if Heather Mills had a different aim in mind - embarrassing her estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney.
For the billboard posters she unveiled yesterday were initially covered over by adverts for the National Domestic Violence Helpline featuring a woman with a black eye.
Miss Mills has previously claimed that she was assaulted by the former Beatle during their marriage.
Last year she even hinted that she was applying for an occupation order, which is commonly used in domestic violence cases to decide who keeps the family home.
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Mixed message: A domestic violence poster covered the Viva! billboard
Last night animal charity Viva! insisted it was merely a coincidence that its billboards had been covered up by the domestic violence posters.
A spokesman said: "They were for an old campaign that is nothing to do with us."
The violence posters were eventually removed to reveal the Viva! billboards featuring Miss Mills, which accuse the meat and dairy industry of helping to fuel global warming.
But still the 39-year- old former model wasn't clear of controversy. She provoked accusations of hypocrisy after she arrived at the launch at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park in a gas-guzzling Mercedes 4x4 - and kept the engine running for part of the morning.
One of the posters features Miss Mills writhing in a gold sequinned dress with the slogan: "Hey Meaty, you're making me so hot!"
The second poster shows Miss Mills - whose leg was amputated after a motorbike hit her as she crossed a street - sending herself up with the logo: "You haven't got a leg to stand on!"
The slogan is aimed at those who claim to be environmentally-aware but also eat meat.
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Controversial: One of the ads for the Viva! campaign fronted by Heather Mills
Steamy: The billboards are likely to have drivers stopping in their tracks
Viva! director Juliet Gellatley said: "Meat and dairy animals are the second biggest cause of greenhouse gases at 18 per cent compared to 13.5 per cent from all the world's different modes of transport combined."
Earlier, Miss Mills had stormed out of an interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC radio. Things got off to a bad start when Ferrari asked her about TV and magazine interviews in which she complained about her treatment by the media and said her marriage had driven her to the brink of suicide.
Miss Mills retorted: "Shall I fall asleep now or do you want to get on with talking about global warming?" before making snoring noises.
She added: "You don't know me as a person. To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial."
Ferrari responded: "I can have an opinion on murderers, on corrupt politicians. I don't have to meet them all."
And Miss Mills hit back: "I am not a murderer or a paedophile. I am a charity campaigner. To put me in the same bracket as those is exactly why I've been treated like one."
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Speakers' Corner: Heather Mills addresses a crowd of photographers and journalists at the launch of a poster campaign by animals charity Viva!
Eco-warrior? Heather turned up at Hyde Park in this environmentally UN-friendly 4x4
After several more clashes, Miss Mills said: "Just cut him off" and walked out. • Sir Paul has joined a campaign to save a post office near one of his homes which faces closure under Royal Mail plans. "It is a vital part of community life and should be saved for future generations to cherish," he said in a statement read to protesters in Heswall, Wirral. Sorry, but we cannot display user comments at the moment.
