Breaking News: "California Cows" Don't Have Proper Papers!

Papers, please?

The 'Happy Cows' that come from California in those ubiquitous ads from the California Milk Advisory Board may actually be coming from New Zealand.

It has come to light that the advertisements are being filmed outside of the country, and one prominent member of the California Assembly has taken issue with this.

Gosh! I'm glad that we don't have any more pressing problems in California than Kiwi cows impersonating Californians! Heh.

Assemblyman Ted Lieu (D - Torrance) is proposing a bill for the Assembly to require that advertising for California-funded programs should be created and recorded in California. Bill AB 1778 would require any state entity that uses public money for television commercials promoting California or California products to film those ads within state lines

Okay. It's all about the Benjamins! Still, it may seem like a bunch of BS to some. Even if the Kiwi cows try to horn in, what would moove California dairy producers to try to milk this for all it's worth? They shouldn't be cowed by a little competition!

Teresa Heinz's Fib Feeds the Homeless

Not Teresa, specifically, but her company, Heinz, has been fibbing about the ownership of a company they acquired two years ago, Golden Circle. They have been selling their products labeled as "proudly Australian owned". Tsk. Tsk.
And now, it's going to cost them...

According to the Herald Sun, they've been forced to get rid of over two million pounds of pineapple!

MORE than 800,000 cans of pineapple weighing 1.1 million kilos, filling 50 semitrailers and valued at $3 million are bound for Australia's homeless community thanks to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Now there's a watchdog agency with some teeth!

The winners are the poor and destitute, who will now be enjoying the versatile fruit after it was handed over to charity Foodbank Australia last week.

"They said, 'Have we got something for you'!" Foodbank chief executive John Webster said with a laugh.

"There's literally 1000 pallet loads of sliced pineapple, diced pineapple, crushed pineapple, pineapple in sweetened juices, unsweetened juices and also juice by itself.

Just one word for it: Sweet!
(John Kerry was out wind surfing and could not be reached for comment!)

Cross posted at Say Anything