This story is pathetic. In 1989 I had braces and an allowance, and Heather Mills was 21. I doubt Heather Mills was a spokes person for Peta in 1989, and all the better that she used to wear fur but has realized how cruel it is, and no longer wears fur.

Here is HM's statement about the article:

Today the Daily Mirror has published a story about me wearing a fur coat and have tried to whip up a storm because I have been a fervent anti-fur campaigner in recent years.

What the Mirror did not say was the picture was taken in 1989. The coat belonged to my mother, who had sadly died just a few days earlier and I wore it because it made me feel close to her.

I am not ashamed I wore it. At the time I was not a vegetarian and was not an anti fur campaigner. I was extremely young and was not aware of the issues surrounding the fur trade.

I gave up eating meat for health reasons when I lost my leg. I became an anti fur trade campaigner when I met Paul because he was passionate about it and when he explained the issues of cruelty and endangered species, and I looked into it myself, I felt he was right.

My campaigning is therefore an informed choice.

The Mirror tried to suggest I was in the wrong to criticise Naomi Campbell who took part in the campaign I would rather go naked than wear fur and yet she has still continued to model fur. I believe that is a different issue. Naomi is aware of the issues. She could make a choice that would have a profound impact on this barbaric trade.

Two weeks ago a person, who I shall not name, called me and asked for £20,000 not to sell that picture of me to the papers. I declined to give in to the demands.

It has led to me being vilified in the Mirror this morning. My friends, family and fellow campaigners know the truth. But I write this in the hope that other members of the media will at least understand the full circumstances and they can make an informed choice about repeating the story.

Thank you for reading this.

Heather

Whatever... Heather Mills is a dirty Pirate.. YARR!!!

This woman kills me.....What she wants in a day from Paul, some people don't even make in a year...She is completely uncalled for and a gold digger.

Even if she wore the coat...it's ONE coat. Not like some supermodels who make it a regular staple. BBC is right. The point is that she is anti-fur now. Give her a break.

"Kill it, skin it, wear it," a programme shown on channel 4 this evening in the United Kingdom, was a cruel, vile documentary, presented by a woman with an extremely unkempt appearance who has no compassion for animals.

The presenter does not respect animals and is a shameful hypocrite who is willing to wear murdered animals that have suffered in excruciating pain. All the animals seen in her footage endured degradation, loss of dignity, ill-health and had no social comforts.

She smiled smugly throughout, from the moment a dead beaver was pulled out of the water, to the grotesque scene where she happily slit the front of the beaver's stomach to remove the fur, and it was quite obvious that she enjoyed every minute of it. It took the beaver around twenty minutes to die in agony once it had been trapped under water.

That malicious woman had the nerve to smile at dead minks and beavers, and yet shed a few crocodile tears during footage of animals murdered for their fur in China - she sounds a bit confused to me.

If you have any respect for animals don't eat them, don't wear them, and don't use products which have been tested on innocent animals such as dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits and guinea pigs etc. There is no humane way to murder an animal, and meat is murder, regardless of how an animal is murdered for its fur or meat. Animal welfare organizations in the United Kingdom, who support injured animals and animals in distress, would not condone the way animals are murdered or used in laboratory experiments. Incidentally, virtually all animals used in laboratory tests die in agony.

Please visit the following websites and I urge you to watch all the videos - you need to know how the USA, China and other countries ill-treat, torture and murder their animals.
www.shac.net/movies/videos_cruelty.html
www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=agri_short&Player=wm
www.meat.org/

The next time you're on vacation in the USA, think twice before you buy fur or tuck in to that bacon or beef, and remember how it was ill-treated in appalling conditions and then murdered in excruciating pain.

I'm proud to be a vegan and absolutely adore all animals and fish.

The BBC have recently informed us that Mark Pritchard, Conservative MP for Wrekin, would like to see all primates (monkeys) banned as pets in the United Kingdom. He believes that monkeys are not housed properly and are kept in cramped condtions. The RSPCA also agrees that primates are not suitably cared for.

My opinion is that thousands of animals in the United Kingdom are kept in unsuitable, cramped cages and conditions provided for by the RSPCA and animal breeders etc. It's not just monkeys that are allegedly kept in unsuitable condtions, but millions of other animals in the U.K., which may not be cared for properly.

I know why Mark Pritchard and the RSPCA are so concerned about primates being kept as pets in the United Kingdom, it's because monkeys and other animals are used extensively for testing in animal laboratories. Thousands of companies use animal laboratories as part of their cheap means of production, because they cannot afford to use humans when testing cheap cosmetics or househould products etc.

Incidentally, the RSPCA are the most hypocritical animal welfare group in the United Kingdom, because they indirectly support the testing of animals in laboratories, and they support the ethical killing of animals in slaughterhouses.

In the past I have found several RSPCA staff most unhelpful and very rough when handling animals that I had found in distress. Several weeks ago a miserable looking RSPCA worker walked into my kitchen and roughly snatched an extremely emaciated cat that I had rescued from our neighbour's roof. She mutttered a few rude words under her breath and then forcibly threw the cat into a dirtly cage after I advised her that the cat may have had broken ribs. I requested feedback from the RSPCA, and eventually found out who owned the cat.

All primates and other animals die in excruciating pain following animal experiments - there are no surviviors and no vets on call in some of these laboratories, where animals such as monkeys bleed to death, aspyxiate or suffer from violent seizures.

Only recently small monkeys were featured on a BBC news website, where they were seen to be waiting on tables in a Japanese restaurant - not the type of animals that laboratories need to be testing on are they. If they are intelligent enough to act as waiters in restaurants, then they should not be tortured and ultimately murdered in animal laboratories.

Hundreds of successful companies do not test their products on animals. If Clarins and other successful companies can produce first class products without having to test them on animals, they why are other companies not following suit?

Monkeys are highly intelligent animals who deserve as much respect as humans. Why respect only pets such as parrots, hamsters, rabbits, cats, dogs and horses? Perhaps one day the human race will be able to respect all innocent animals including pigs, lambs, cows and chickens.

If you truly love and respect animals, then you should try to give up eating murdered animals and stop wearing murdered animals.

Please refer to the following links to learn how animals such as monkeys are abused, tortured and murdered: www.goveg.com/feat/agriprocessors/
This is a link where you can look at information about U.S. slaugherhouses that murder animals for "Jewish" people. The "Jewish" as a matter of fact prefer to eat only "Kosher meat." The production of Kosher meat involves a process during which animals are turned upside down in filthy machines in slaughterhouses and murdered whilst STILL ALIVE AND VERY MUCH ALERT. Animals such as cows die screaming, and are mudered in excruciating pain in horrific circumstances, during which their throats are slit from ear to ear in the upside down position. Then the animals are forced out of these machines and made to walk across their own blood and excrement, with the contents of their throats dangling out of their necks. The animals probably think they're free to go and then realise they are going to die in excruciating pain, as they stumble and fall and then bleed to death in the corners of these dirty slaughterhouses. The "Jewish" are quite obviously in favour of the horrific torture and the infliction of extreme pain on innocent animals, and should be remembered for their extreme hatred of animals. Sadly, the link between "Kosher" and "Jews" was not mentioned in the online Wikipedia encyclopedia, yet another source of unreliable information. Anyone who eats this type of murdered animal and favours animal abuse is very cruel indeed.

The U.S.A. are not just in favour of Kosher meat production, but also led us to war in 2001 and 2003, when several countries assisted the U.S.A in completely destroying Iraq and Afghanistan, two countries which were invaded for minor reasons and who were unable to adequately defend themselves - the consequences of which led to the deaths of more than 650,000 innocent babies, children and civilians in Iraq according to a BBC article, although the deaths in Afghanistan have not been revealed. The U.S.A have done nothing to repair the infrastructure in these two countries and have failed to withdraw their troops from countries they had no right to occupy in the first place (illegal occupation). The U.S.A is also mainly responsible for the serious global economic downfall, and who knows how many more risks their banks and other financial institutions will take in the future before another global crisis hits the global economy. The U.S.A also supports Capital Punishment which is widespread across many U.S. states, where they use horrific machines or other means to kill people, such as the electric chair which does not kill people immediately, and can sometimes take up to 20 minutes for a person to die, after which the deceased are left with severe burns on their scalps.

Finally, if you're hoping to be reliably informed by Wikipedia online, then you can think again and find another source of reliable information for those all important facts. This is because current information regarding an american actor by the name of "Josh" is inaccurate, his dietary preferences are incorrect and he is not a vegetarian, although Wikipedia online claims that he is. This and many other mistakes on Wikipedia have left me feeling disillusioned.

www.peta.org/

www.naturewatch.org/shoppingguide/index.asp
Naturewatch compassionate shopping guide - index.

This is my second comment on this column under the Splash article about Heather Mills.

Bear Grylls is yet another vile presenter on Born Survivor who thinks he can get away with murder- well I don't think so somehow!!!

So far he has stabbed a turtle in the face before burning it alive on an open fire. He quite happily quenched his thirst by ripping a murdered camel's belly open for fluids, after which he ripped the stomach open to show his viewers what the contents looked like. How would he like to be stabbed in the face and then converted into a slab of salami???

I will be reporting that evil scum to the RSPCA and other welfare groups, as that is not acceptable behaviour during prime-time television viewing. The programme was also shown before the watershed period on a Saturday night for children to see. Bear Grylls and Channel 4 seem to think that type of animal abuse is quite normal when it certainly is not. I was very distressed and quite nauseous during the showing of this programme.

Perhaps Channel 4 should warn everyong about the content within their programmes which may be grossly offensive. How can a programme like that be entertaining Saturday night viewing - surely a horror flick would not have been so shocking.

I've also noticed that Channel 4 never shows programmes in favour of animal welfare.

All animals deserve love and respect, and I will do all I can to protect them.