Skip the ordinary Christmas gifts this year- buy a goat!


We all know how hard it is to find the right Christmas gift to our loved ones. Most of them, for instance, do not know what they want for Christmas because they already seem to have everything that they need, while others who really know what they want often buys it before Christmas themselves. In most cases the result of this is that the things given away as Christmas gifts are impulse purchases, which often are things that the person actually do not need. To buy a gift that really is needed and makes a difference can seem to be an impossible matter, but there is a great, easy solution to the problem, - buy a goat; because the goat deserves to be the Christmas Gift of the Year 2010!

To make a goat the Christmas gift of year 2010, may sound like an absurd idea, but it is however not as strange as it sounds. When buying this above-mentioned goat one does not actually receive the goat oneself, instead the goat is given away to poor families living in developing countries, as a form of charity. Once the goat arrives to the family it can provide them with milk that can be used both as food or be sold on the market. As can be understood, the income that the goat gives can actually be the difference between surviving or not for a poor family, which -if anything- is a very strong reason to why the goat deserves to be the Christmas gift of the year 2010!

Another argument in favour for this matter is that the goat, in contrast to many other items, is a very environmental friendly gift, which is preferable in a world with growing environmental issues such as our own. When buying a goat no harm to the environment is made, and that is another strong reason to support the matter.

Despite all these advantages there is of course other opinions. The opponents of making the goat the Christmas gift of 2010 may for instance argue that a goat is not a very fun gift, because the one who receives it does not actually get anything at all. This is however not true. Despite receiving a beautiful card with a picture of the goat the person also gets the pleasure of feeling that he or she actually has made a big difference to another human being’s life, which indeed is one of the best feelings that can be experienced.

Another counter argument, which opponents could claim, is that one never can be sure that the money paid for the goat, really results in a goat given to a poor family. This is however not a very likely scenario - the majority of all the companies providing these services are very reliable and can guarantee that the money is used as it is supposed to. This fear is clearly unnecessary and therefore not a good counter argument to the matter.

As can be read above there are very strong reasons, both humanitarian and environmental, to why the goat deserves to be the Christmas gift of the year 2010. Some people may still claim that a goat is a boring Christmas gift but when considering what Christmas really is about one can ask oneself the question of what they would like the most; Is it to receive a gift that they probably do not need or is it to receive the knowledge of that their gift actually makes a big difference to someone who really needs it?