But I do want to mention one, hopefully non-divisive issue that I'm happy about: Proposition 2 in California. This measure bans the use of crowded pens for animals being raised for food. This includes pigs, egg-laying hens and veal calves. They now have to be able to turn around and stretch their limbs (crazy, I know.)
Part of what is so great about this measure, beyond the human treatment of the animals, is that it helps small farmers. It's the large factory farms that routinely abuse animals, and small farms already follow these practices for the most part. We're pretty passionate about small farms around here and get much of our food from local ones, so I was glad to see something like this happen in neighboring California and just hope it will be a national trend.
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Recently heard around our house:
Meghan (realizing she hasn't seen Bridget in a couple of minutes): "Bridgey, what are you doing?"
Bridget: "I'm eating butter Mommy!" (and indeed she was scooping butter into out of the dish and into her mouth. The girl knows what she wants.)
Aidan (after the election result was announced): "Mommy, I'm so happy, but I'm starting to feel sad for John McCain. He lost, and he's so old he might die."
Aidan (in robotic voice): "We're Fix-o-Bots. We fix things . . . with guns."
and later . . . "We're just doing robotic type things."
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Kids do indeed know what they want, and what their bodies need. Most of the time anyway! Recently Caleb was singing himself a song which went something like this,
House an BUTTER, momma an BUTTER(which sounds like butto)toast an BUTTER, Woowoo's(trains) and BUTTER!
Guess what his favorite food is.
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