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40 maltatoday, SUNDAY, 12 JANUARY 2014 THIS WEEK Croatian supermodel Nina Moric interviewed on One Night Stand Owen Bonnici interviews Versace fashion model who appeared in Ricky Martin's Livin' La Vida Loca Video on One Night Stand next Tuesday NEXT Tuesday, January 14 on ONE, Owen Bonnici will be hosting an international guest, Nina Moric, on One Night Stand – the former Zoo member's chat show focusing on all-female personalities. Moric will be speaking openly and candidly about her experiences of the war in former Yugoslavia, as well as her subsequently turbulent marriage with the troubled Italian paparazzo Fabrizio Corona. "She went through very hard times with her first husband, and even during her pregnancy, including domestic violence. She made an appeal to all Maltese women to be strong when facing hard times, very encouraging words," Owen Bonnici told MaltaToday after the interview was recorded. Moric was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1976 into an upper-middle class household. After finishing high school Moric became a law school student, but then chose to become a professional fashion model after winning the 1996 Croatian Elite 'Look of the Year' modeling competition, placing third at the world pageant. While working in Los Angeles in 1999, she was cast in Ricky Martin's hit music video, Livin' La Vida Loca. That same year, she released her debut single as a singer, but due to its lack of success, an album was never produced. She was also selected by Jim Carrey as the female Owen Bonnici will interview Nina Moric on One Night Stand next Tuesday lead to a sequel for the 1994 film The Mask, but negotiations fell through and Carrey eventually left the project. She has worked for well-known designers like: Versace, Roberto Cavalli, Trend Les Copains, Valentino, Erreuno, Gai Mattiolo, RoccoBarocco, Fausto Sarli, Gattinoni, Mariella Burani, Angelo Marani, Marina Spadafora, Simonetta Ravizza, Guillermina Baeza, Jesus Del Pozo. She has since appeared on numerous international covers of men's magazines like Maxim. After a stint in the United States, she moved to Italy and became well-known there, continuing her modeling career and working as a television correspondent.Between 2001 and 2007 Morić was married to Fabrizio Corona, a troubled Paparazzo, with whom she had a son, Carlos, born in 2002. Their turbu- lent marriage made news on most Italian Gossip magazines for many years. Early 2013 she got married in Cambodia to Massimo Dossi, Italian businessman. The One Night stand interview with Nina Moric will air on January 14, at 21:45 on ONE. Meat Atlas: facts and figures about the animals we eat 386. LITTLE CRAKE Rails are a group of birds so shy and secretive that new species are still being discovered from time to time around the world, the latest only a couple of years ago in Madagascar. Rails are largely water-loving birds, happiest among good thick ground vegetation where to forage while safely hidden. Of the 10 or so species recorded in Malta, the very scarce Little Crake (M: Gallozz Zghir) occurs mostly in spring and is one of the smallest (not much bigger than a sparrow). Its diminutive size, excellent camouflage and skulking habits render it very hard to spot in a nice thick reedbed, such as occur at Is-Simar nature reserve and some valley floors. Makes looking for the proverbial needle a picnic! But that's the kind of challenge any birder would relish. The birdwatcher's most important piece of equipment is not binoculars, after all. It's perseverence. Text Victor Falzon Photo Raymond Galea The way we produce and consume meat and dairy needs a radical rethink. Our industrialised production system is untenable, according to this new report, since it depends on scarce land and water resources, and passes on hidden costs to the consumer. Curbs on corporate control over food need to be implemented, it says, to reduce the impact on society and the environment. The Meat Atlas aims to catalyse the debate over the need for better, safer and more sustainable food and farming and advocates clear individual and political solutions. Diet is no longer a private matter. Every time we eat, we are making a political choice, and we are impacting upon the lives of people around the world, on the environment, biodiversity and the climate. Huge amounts of resources go into the food on our plates. Sustainable alternatives exist to the dominant destructive, corporate-controlled and intensive global system for producing and consuming meat. Intensive meat production isn't just torture for animals. It destroys the environment, and devours great chunks of our raw materials which we import from the global South as animal feed. After China, Europe is the biggest importer of soya. Argentina and Brazil are dramatically increasing their soya cultivation, and it's being fed almost exclusively to the animals we slaughter. Rising meat consumption is forcing up land prices. This has devastating consequences: Nearly a third of the world's land is being used to grow animal feed. Meanwhile, small farmers are losing their land and their livelihoods. That steak on our plates jeopardises the food security of many people in the global South. The report also warns that the trade talks between the EU and the US risk pushing food and farming standards down on both sides of the Atlantic. Big food and biotech companies want to lift EU restrictions on genetically modified (GM) foods and animal feeds, and are challenging consumer labelling laws. They also want to undermine the EU's 'precautionary principle' which sets food safety standards, and aim to further globalise and industrialise the meat industry. Visit Friends of the Earth's website for more information about our work, as well as for information about how to join us www.foemalta.org. You can also support us by sending a blank SMS donation on 50618070 (€4.66) or 50619223 (€11.65). GREEN IDEA OF THE WEEK 288 Find out more Download and read the full report from: http://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/news/foee_hbf_ meatatlas_jan2014.pdf SEND US YOUR TIP! – We'd love to hear your green tips for a change. Post your planet-friendly tip on our Facebook page or send by email on info@foemalta.org. The best tip will win an FoE cloth bag.