Cows eat bread

I thought I’d share a funny story. The shelter where I work runs like a well oiled machine. We get donations of bread almost daily from Safeway and other bakeries. At times we feel like we are drowning in bread! We put it out on racks for our clients to take freely, but as long as I’ve been there…the racks have never been empty…in fact, at times we don’t have room for all of it. We have two cow farmers who come and pick up the excess bread to feed to their cows. Yeah…who knew cows eat bread?

Several weeks ago was “take your child to work” day, so I took Hannah to the shelter with me. She served food on the line along with the other volunteers, and she got to help her mom make 150 tuna sandwiches.

On this day we had an over abundance of bread, and more coming in. One of my resident staff approached me and asked what we should do with the excess. “We’ll give it to the cows”, I said.

Hannah’s mouth dropped and her eyes became wider than I’ve ever seen them. She took in a sharp breath and said, (in complete and utter shock)…”Mom!! I can’t believe you called the homeless people cows!!!”