Drudge links to this absurd story about Heather Mills insisting we should all drink rat’s milk to prevent global warming. You would think sane environmentalists would work harder at telling people like this to shut up. Still, I would love to see some math on this idea. Surely, some readers could do a quick calculation of how many rats would be needed to replace the output from cows.

Of course, I have no idea if rat milk would actually work as a substitute. Can you make rat milk cheese? But I guess Mills would agree to feed the cows to the rats, because if you stop using cow milk and meat, you’ll have to kill a lot of cows. May as well recycle them. This might also solve unemployment problems because milking a trillion rats every morning before dawn (presumably into milk thimbles) would be a pretty labor intensive.

Still, I would not want to see an industrial rat dairy farm.

Update: I can’t believe I needed a reader to remind me that Fat Tony came up with this idea already.