So I broke the news to Liam about going organic. No more BK (no problem), no more ready serve chocolate milk only organic white milk with chocolate syrup (no problem), no more BW3 chicken tenders (tears). He chippered up after I told him I'd make him organic chicken tenders that would taste a lot like BW3's. That got a smile.

During the family meeting tonight I told him the story of Kevin and how he died.

(http://www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-issues.php)

The reasons behind it and my disgust with the lawmakers in this country. Now you have to understand, when Obama was campaigning last year, for what ever reason, Liam's first grade class really got into it. The teacher didn't push any candidate over any other. Liam ended up as firmly behind Obama. When he won, I could see how happy he was.

All politics aside (and I do mean ALL) in my eyes I saw the pure joy on his face when his man won. Good, bad, indifferent for this country, it didn't matter to me (still doesn't, presidents are two heads on the same coin). Liam believed in the system.

Not sure how it would have worked out had McCain won but that's' another post. So after telling him Kevin's story and all the crap behind it and why we can't eat medicated goo for food any longer, he looked up at me and said, "Why doesn't President Obama do something?" For the briefest of moments, I was stunned by the innocence of his question.

I could have given him the long winded explanation about how little power the executive branch has over the legislative branch but for that one moment, government aside, I knew I had to tell him that the system really doesn't work. And that it's really not Obama's fault even though I'm not sure how he voted or even if he did when all these wacky laws that protect big agra come into being.

Here's this innocent little child asking me why. And I don't know the answer.

Everyone makes a choice. Some of them are informed decisions, some of them are not. Switching over to organic is going to be tough. Tougher, I fear, for my soon to be eight year old son.