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Happy cow commercials cause depression and maybe even suicide

Have you ever seen the California cheese commercials? "Great cheese comes from happy cows." In these commercials they are always talking about how happy the cows are that are from California. The cows are warm and have plush grass year round.

Well, in eastern Washington this past week, a 600 lb cow allegedly fell off a cliff and landed on a mini van's hood that was traveling down the highway. Nobody in the mini van was injured, but I think there needs to be an investigation! Cows don't just fall off cliffs everyday. I think the cow was depressed and committed suicide. (I know these commercials depress me!)

I feel seeing these commercials for happy cows and not being able to find a way to hitchhike (no thumbs) to California got it depressed and it wasn't about to stand for another winter in Eastern Washington. So mytheory is that it waited by the cliff for just the right moment to jump!

This cow was depressed and wanted to show the world what it had to go through. Cows die everyday, but how many cow's deaths make the six o'clock news? None! This cow had to do something different to get noticed. Granted, it forgot to write the suicide note before jumping, but I still think this is what happened.

So if you own cows in colder, darker, rainier climates please watch them this winter for signs of depression, or I think we are going to see a sharp rise in cow suicides this winter. Copy cat crimes happen all the time after major news events like this one, so farmers please be careful.

Todd Clark - broker
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Posted by Todd Clark (Broker/Sales Coach), GRI (Beaverton, Oregon Real Estate Expert) on 11/10/2007 01:05 PM

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34 Comments on Happy cow commercials cause depression and maybe even suicide

NOV

2007

(sorry, this is in draft right now..........but I won't get a chance to comment on it later)

This is HILARIOUS!!!!! I went to College in Eastern Washington................I can relate to why a cow would jump off a cliff. For us, it was heavy amounts of booze to make it through winter :)

Todd -

Awesome post!!! I love it. I am a previous cow-tipper and you are right cows don't just do this everyday!!

OMG, that is toooo funny! I heard about that cow on the news. Didn't his cow-friends say he had been spending a lot of time on front of the TV in a dark barn lately? I've stayed in Spokane, Pullman and at the Gorge. Gorgeous in summer, H-e-double-hockey-sticks in winter!

Todd,

Thanks for making me laugh today. We really need to have more empathy for the cows, they have feelings too!

I can hardly type for laughing so hard. I love the happy cows. I am so sorry to hear about the suicide rate among cows going up as a result. Maybe we should have melancholy cows commercials. It's okay, we all have days when we feel blue.

Very funny Todd. We have lots of cows in my neighborhood. I guess I should stop over and check in on them.

Todd - It makes you think, doesn't it? Maybe there is a cottage industry in bovine psychiatry. Thanks for the laugh!

NOV

2007

Todd, Just wanted to make you aware that depression isn't just limited to cows. The helicopter company that my stepson works for, had a helicopter damaged when a moose charged it! I'm not quite sure what the moose was unhappy about unless it was the cold Alaska weather! Here is the story on it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17469416/

Todd, you've done it again--what a hoot...I mean "MOO"!

Todd - Very funny. Careful when you mozy down for your family Disneyland trip. You may just wind up with a bovine hitchhiker!

Todd- I love our Happy Cows.....sorry your cows are depressed, maybe they should move down here where it is warm......I have some great desert land they can share with the wild burros :) :)

Cute post, thanks for the laugh.

It only takes one depressed cow to take a drastic jump to start a revolution. Its said that they have to have to endanger other lives to get their point across. A case of Depressed times call for drastic actions.

Todd, the "happy cows" ad campaign has caused a lot of unhappiness in Wisconsin!

Wisconsin used to be known as "the cheese state". Just take a look at all those cheesehead hats at Packer games! The Dairy Council in Wisconsin should have taken action right away when they saw California gaining the upper hand in the great dairy battle.

We have a Packer vs. Vikings game today, so cows in Minnesota will probably be boo-ing the cows in Wisconsin..

Bob - I'm glad I could give you a laugh before you take of the NAR! Also how dare you read my most personal confidential stuff before I decide to put it public. There is a reason I have it in draft! (Just kidding and you know it, I was just saying that based on our other converstion outside the blog)

Ryan - COW TIPPERS UNITE!

Marlene - I heard the same rumours!

Peggy - Glad I gave you a laugh!

Virginia - I think we need a 1-800-sad-cows hotline.

Bryant - That would be the right thing to do and I know as a caring person you would.

Roberta - It must be the cold winters, drives animals to depression.

Loretta - I'm glad I have done it again.

Marlene - I will watch out for that hitchhiker!

Kathy - Don't worry I won't forget your "HAPPY COWS", I plan to have a nice juicy 1/2 pound burger when I get down to California. (With some real california cheese)

Chad - Via la cow!

Eric - It really has affected us here also. We actually had a cheese factory on the Southern Oregon coast close last year.

Has anyone considered the other, more sinister possibility?

Maybe the cow was pushed? A disgruntled, less-than-happy cow couldn't take the happy cow's ramblings any more.

Hilarious! I can't imagine how lucky it is that a 600lb cow fell on a van and nobody was hurt. Is that covered by insurance? Would the suicide negate coverage or worse yet if it was murder???

NOV

2007

Jayne - I think it is time to call in "CSI - Green Valley"

Todd - I can't figure out how a 600 lbs cow hits a van and doesn't hurt anyone either, but witness say it fell and I don't know if that is covered by insurance.

Todd, I think its udderly ridiculous that a cow would jump off a cliff. Its the over the moon gig that he was apparently short on the landing. He knows that would get his hide tanned for sure for a prank like that. Well, no use crying over spilt milk, I guess I'll be MOOOO ving along now!

Cow tipping...??? I thought that was an old cow tail ??

Mike - Now that was funny! Thanks for stopping by!

Sharon - OH NO! Cow tipping is real, just ask anyone who grew up around farms.

It's a conspiracy, the man apparently forced the cow to watch the commercials over and over again till the cow started frothing at the mouth and the moo's became meee's. The man, convinced that brain washing the cow to thinking it too was in sunny California, set it free to wander the countryside endlessly searching but never finding the greener grass on the other side and so took the fatal leap and now cow's spirit frolics in greener pastures.

Diane - You may just be on to something here. CSI - where are you?

Very clever Todd. That's the funniest post I have read in a while.

Nicolette - I'm glad I could make you laugh, just don't spit milk out your nose - ROFL

Maybe that cow lost her job at the CHICK FIL A next door? all the bad weather in Washington and no longer a CHICK FILA billboad .. more than the poor cow could handle. ;)

Gail - Where this happened they are lucky to get a McDonalds! It is in the middle of farm country. But, I can see why some cows would want to stop this.

DEC

2007

As usual, you sure know how to make me giggle- I think this is funny!!! I love the happy cow commercials- especially the one when they are playing marco pollo.

DEC

2007

Maureen - I've glad I could get a laugh out of you, I wish I had seen your graphic when I put this post up! I would have stole the beenie.

Todd

JUN

2008

Sorry I missed this the first time around, but this is funny stuff! I mean I'm sorry he (or she) had to jump off a cliff, but at least they had the good sense to land on a mini-van. Kill two birds with one stone. :)

NOV

I am not a fan of the happy California cows. Their recent presence in Texas has caused our native Longhorns to become depressed. As a UT alumni I just can't contribute to that depression so I won't buy California cheese.

Todd, I agree with you. Those cow commercials make me want to jump off a cliff myself.

Todd, what a hilarious post and very creative! Our Texas cows are just nervous because we have so many good steak houses here!

MAR

Jesse - ROFL (EXACTLY)

Betina - That is the attitude... Keep that califonia cheese in California where it belongs.

Bob - ROFL, Talking cows? Come on... I've never taken any drugs and even I find it a little weird.

Lara - MMMM STEAK!

MAR

Who says you can't leave a comment eighteen months later? Great post. You know, cows love me - my cheese affliction keeps them in business! I used to have a cow once, named Honey, down at my grandparents' farm in Texas - she evidently "died" of a rare disease (or so I was told). I was devastated. You made me laugh with this one, Todd. Thanks for the link!

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