Animal farming is modern-day slavery. Innocent beings are confined within cages or fences and forced into abusive and oppressive practices only to be killed prematurely or have their secretions or eggs stolen from them for profit.

And no animal agriculture practice has a more detrimental effect on the environment than cattle farming. Cows need a significant amount of space to graze for food, so countless hectares of forest are destroyed so that grass can grow to feed these animals until they are mature enough to be slaughtered or used as milk machines.

The removal of the forest ecosystems has devastating consequences to wildlife, soil, watersheds, climate, and the natural balance of the original environment.

Without the canopy of the trees to provide cover, animals are exposed to predators and harsh weather as they travel across deforested parts of their native range.

Without the canopy of the trees to absorb the rainfall, topsoils are eroded, water is unable to percolate into the soil at a natural rate, and the result is run-off and flooding.

Without the canopy of the trees to transpireverb: to exude water vapour from the leaves or other tissues moisture back into the atmosphere and create more precipitation, the result is a drier climate with more intense and erratic rainfall events and greater risk of fires.

Without the canopy of the trees to act as an insulation layer to stablilise humidity and regulate temperatures, the bare land experiences more extreme high and low temperatures, leading to harsher floods and droughts, which wreak even more havoc on the land.

Destruction of forest for the sake of exploiting animals is the single biggest driver of human-influenced climate change.

The resultant grassland is home to a plethora of parasites and biting insects not found in the forest. In the wet season, the rivers flood and wash away the seeds of the forest before they can sprout, and in the dry season, there is not sufficient rainfall for the young trees to survive to maturity so that the forest can regenerate.

This is some bullshitnoun: any object, event, or idea that defies rationality or common sense, especially when this damage is caused so that people can eat the dead bodies of the murdered cows or consume the milk that was stolen from them.

Monoculture farming is also bullshit. People cut down biodiverse forest systems and replace them with a only one type of cultivated plant per area. This kind of farming practice removes important habitat for the immense variety of animals and other life that depends on the native environment and replaces it with a completely unnatural ecosystem. This typically attracts a very limited variety of native animals but a high volume of “pests” (including fungal and bacterial) and other invasive species that often require ever-increasing quantities of synthetic chemicals and other unnatural practices to suppress.

If these destructive practices are not stopped and the forest is not restored, then the deforested regions will become too dry and degraded to support a rainforest at all.

The solution for both of these problems is to restore the land to a biodiverse forest system that can regulate rainfall run-off and absorption, insulate the land against extreme temperatures, provide food and shelter for a variety of animals, and help to restore the natural balance of the ecosystem that existed before the destruction took place.

So yes, animal agriculture and mono-cropping are bullshitnoun: any nuisance with no useful purpose, arising through no fault of one’s own, with which one must contend, especially requiring an extensive amount of difficult or tedious labour in order to resolve, and the solution is to shade them out with forest canopies (especially fruit forests).

And that’s exactly what we’re here to do. Please feel free to explore this website for more information, and if you are called to do so, join us in shading out the bullshit and restoring the land to a healthier, more stable, and more fruitful state.