Give a Goat for Christmas

Giving a farm animal is often a very poor way of helping a family in the developing world. Families often do knot know how to care properly for the animals they recieve and even if they do, they may not have the resources to look after them properly. For example, farm animals need fodder, large quantities of water, some sort of shelterm and veterinary care, any or all of which may be in short supply in poor communities. It would be better to put limited resources to work in improving arable farming, which is a much more efficient way of producing food from scarce land an water than meat production. Finally, given the environmental destruction animals such as goats can cause, their inappropriate donation can actually impoverish communities even further the long term.