FYI: Happy Cows ARE from California

Every time we've seen that "Happy Cows come from California." ad, I skeptically think of Harris Ranch. If you drive the I-5, along your drive you'll see the Harris Ranch cows which look a little like this:

Now I don't really know how happy they can be considering they're scheduled to be eaten, but this ad slogan has always seemed a little ridiculous.

That is, until we drove through Northern California.

Here's a picture of the milk cows near Ferndale; laying around in a big green field in the middle of summer. They look pretty happy.

But if these cows knew how to read, right outside their fence line is a message of impending doom! I guess only the ignorant are ever truly happy.