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Today, Ottawa is holding its Food Aid Day.

This is about people helping people!

Local food bank is buying cows from local farmers – ‘on the hoof’, so to speak – and the farmers are matching the purchase with an equal donation.  The beef gets made into packets of ground beef and is given to people who come to the Ottawa Food Bank for help.

This was originally thought up when local farmers were having a difficult time selling their beef, because of the ‘mad cow’ issue:  even thoug no Ontario cattle were ill, their export market dissappeared.  Now that the farmers are doing better, they are donating cattle and giving help back to the community which helped them in difficult times.

Oh, and Laureen Harper – the Prime Minister’s wife – will be just one of the movers-and-shakers participating in a cow-milking competition as part of this fundraiser!

I like good stories like this.