Heather Mills - Got Milk?

HEATHER Mills - celebrity divorcee and green extremist - last year urged us to stop drinking the milk of cows.

Milking ex-husband Paul McCartney may have been fine, but Mills felt milking cows was going too far.

You see, the burps of these gassy beasts were heating the world to hell, she told a press conference.

"There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk?"

And with that, she roared off in a Mercedes four-wheel drive, trailing clouds of hypocrisy.

But it seems PETA, the two million-strong group of animal rights greenshirts, has since informed Mills she's made an embarrassing mistake. Rats' milk? Is she mad?

And success! Mills has reportedly now endorsed PETA's latest campaign, which it kicked off last month with this press release: "This morning, PETA dispatched a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of ice cream icon Ben & Jerrys Homemade Inc., urging them to replace the cows' milk in their products with human breast milk."

After all, "cow's milk is for baby cows". So don't milk cattle. Or even rats. Milk humans, instead.

A temporary moment of madness? Alas, no. PETA has a solid record now of demonstrating an alarming truth: that those who demand that animals be treated like humans, in fact want humans treated like animals.

In August, for instance, it ran ads likening a mad man's beheading of a bus passenger in Canada to the killing of animals in an abattoir. No worse.

Indeed, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has suggested the murder of millions of humans in the Holocaust was no worse than the killing of chickens: "Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses."

Shocked? But to PETA, "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy".

That's why it famously urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to stop suicide bombings - but only the ones that killed donkeys, not children. "(L)eave the animals out of this conflict," Newkirk wrote.

Of course, you might think PETA demonstrated brilliantly with its letter that one person at least was indeed just like a donkey. But this demotion of man is sinister, and not just the work of PETA.

After all, this outfit merely draws on the influential preaching of Australian animal rights philosopher Peter Singer, who has argued for the right of parents to kill fetuses at full term, and even deformed babies once born, but who deplores the killing of animals.

This ethic of treating animals with the respect humans thought was once theirs has now morphed into a green movement that too often sees humans as a pollution -- and even in need of culling. Like beasts, run wild.

A senior PETA worker, Toni Vernelli, last year announced she'd killed her unborn child and had herself sterilised to "protect the planet".

Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, likewise called humans "the AIDS of the earth" and called for our numbers to be cut to just one billion. A guest speaker on ABC radio's Ockham's Razor program even suggested we "put something in the water, a virus" to make "a substantial proportion of the population infertile".

How strange, this fall of man and worship of, in this case, a calf. I fear the excessive love of wildlife that is now so chic is in truth just a disguised hatred of humans. And that does seem a sin.

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