Monday, 06 November 2017 10:11

The grass is high

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A New Zealand agri academic recently visiting the US met an American who clearly knew little about this country.

The Kiwi was busy explaining to him that NZ has a grass based system for feeding its livestock. The American, taken aback by this news, kept asking if this was true and did the animals get sick by eating all this ‘grass’. Suddenly the NZer twigged that the American was from California where the word ‘grass’ means marijuana. For a few minutes the poor man had convinced himself that NZ was feeding its animals on the other green crop. But then with the Greens in government, maybe this could happen in NZ. Getting high on milk could be a reality some day.

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