Heifer International on Colbert

Last night, The Colbert Report hosted an interview with Elizabeth Bintliff of Heifer International to talk about their efforts to provide healthy livestock and veterinary support to impoverished communities around the world.

As Bintliff alluded to, the reproductive capacity of the natural world is the basis of subsistence rural economies that have little access to cash.

Though to extend the point, it would do better to remember that the reproductive capacity of the world's plants and animals is the foundation of every economy or economic system. As biological beings, our life support needs are intimately tied to the health and abundance of living ecosystems, with their wealth of plant, animal and microbial lifeforms. And as we strengthen the web of life that the world's communities in need depend on, we make it easier to solve the global environmental problems we all face.

Consider helping this good work by donating livestock, useful insects or beneficial plants to a rural community through Heifer International and you can be part of the solution on almost any budget.