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Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:02:56 GMT

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Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy.

But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.

Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

Incredibly, so determined was she that the terrible "mistake" of pregnancy should never happen again, that she begged the doctor who performed the abortion to sterilise her at the same time.

He refused, but Toni - who works for an environmental charity - "relentlessly hunted down a doctor who would perform the irreversible surgery.

Finally, eight years ago, Toni got her way.

At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to "protect the planet".

Tags: eco, population, baby

Heather Mill's Rat Milk

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:53:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thisislondon.co.uk

It's been another typical day in the world of Heather Mills.

She started her day by storming out of a radio interview with London's LBC station, and then turned up at Speakers' Corner, in a gas-guzzling black 4x4 Mercedes, to lecture the assembled crowds on ways of saving the planet.

As part of her extraordinary tirade at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, Heather exhorted people to try drinking rat's milk instead of cow milk to help reduce global warming.

Heather said that eating meat and dairy and chopping down trees in order to breed livestock was seriously damaging the environment and she suggested there were more eco-friendly alternatives to using cow's milk.

"Why don't we drink rat's milk or cat's milk or dog's milk?" she asked.

Ms Mills, 39, was launching a pro-vegan campaign for animals charity Viva.

From tomorrow she will feature in a series of ads which will have drivers literally stopping in their tracks.

Tags: mills, vegan, eco

Talk of Worst Recession Since the 1930s

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:01:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nysun.com

After what Los Angeles money manager Arnold Silver called "a brutal three days," the question is: What now for the market?

A Wall Street superstar this year who runs Balestra Capital Partners, Jim Melcher, says he's "worried about a recession. Not a normal one, but a very bad one. The worst since the 1930s. I expect we'll see clear signs of it in six months with a dramatic slowdown in the gross domestic product."

Balestra Capital, a $350 million New York hedge fund, was up 3% for the past three market sessions, when the Dow Jones Industrials, spearheaded by widespread declines in financial stocks and fears of more billion-dollar-plus asset write-downs, tumbled more than 677 points, or about 4.5%. The Nasdaq fared worse, skidding about 7%, triggered by across-the-board declines in those fast-stepping technology stocks.

Tags: wall street, balestra, eco