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Life Imitates Art (Take 2)

Heather Mills:

Substitute rat's milk for cow's milk and you will help save the world. At least, that’s what Heather Mills believes.

...meet Fat Tony:

...at a meeting in which Quimby grants Fat Tony the contract for Springfield Elementary's milk concession, Homer is shocked to discover they will sell rat's milk to the children.

What a loon McCartney married.

Posted by Rand Simberg at November 19, 2007 01:22 PM
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I don't give a rat's udder what she thinks.

Posted by Alan K. Henderson at November 19, 2007 03:01 PM

Paul musta had the bong goin' full blast when he married her.

Posted by Frantic Freddie at November 19, 2007 03:57 PM

Umm, where does she talk about rat's milk? I only see the Fox reporter mention it in the blurb?

Posted by mz at November 19, 2007 08:46 PM

And she only cost him about £800/hour for the duration of their marriage, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Posted by Bruce Hoult at November 19, 2007 10:30 PM

mz: "Umm, where does she talk about rat's milk?"

In the full story link in the middle of the FoxNews article:

"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."

Posted by ObeliskToucher at November 20, 2007 08:38 AM

mz, you could try Google, since you don't seem to trust Foxnews or Rand.

Posted by Leland at November 20, 2007 08:39 AM

Thanks. It seems such a weird idea, why would anyone say something like that? I don't know anything about that person anyway.

Maybe the idea was to try to demonstrate how perverse it is to drink cow's milk and to compare it and say "why don't you drink rat's or dog's milk?"

That's often used with meat eating too - why people eat cows and pigs but not dogs for example, and how it is hypocritical to be so dismissive of dog eating but not pig eating. I think Rand even posted about that a while back, saying how he really isn't very consistent with it. (And neither am I.)

But the rat's milk question and what she really said and meant will probably be left unclear.

What of course IS a clear fact is that eating meat does produce much more pollution than being vegan (because it's much less efficient), but that's probably not of interest to the quality newspapers that latched on to the rat milk thing.

Posted by mz at November 20, 2007 04:20 PM


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