A State Government MP has been attacked as a “green communist” after she blamed farmers for climate change, demanded livestock be replaced with plants and called on people to eat less meat.

Lisa Baker, the Labor member for Maylands, prompted outrage when she told State Parliament her Government should encourage reduced meat consumption through concepts such as “meat-free Mondays”.

Ms Baker said meat-eating men produced more greenhouse gas emissions than vegan women and believed incentives should be offered for farms to be reforested.

Gary Buller, who breeds Angus cattle in WA’s South West, said Ms Baker needed to get a “grip on reality”.

“There is much too much emotion in this whole debate and not enough dealing with the facts,” Mr Buller said.

“People with these views are away with the fairies — they’re green communists,” Mr Buller said.

Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA president Tony Seabrook said Ms Baker was hell-bent on bringing down the red meat industry.

WA Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan, Ms Baker’s Labor colleague, said fossil fuels posed a greater risk to carbon emissions than livestock.

“Burning of fossil fuels is clearly the main generator of greenhouse gases, and should be our focus,” she said.

“None of us can be complacent here — vegans are also using cars, electric lights, computers and travelling overseas,” Ms MacTiernan said.

Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said Ms Baker’s comments would be “laughable if it wasn’t so serious”.

WAFarmers chief executive Trevor Whittington said Ms Baker represented “inner-city, green elitism gone mad”.

“Her world is a simple one of vegans, good, meat eaters bad,” he said.

“We will watch with interest to see if she manages to convince her colleagues to take her views to the next election.

“What is she advocating? That a carbon tax now becomes a steak tax?

Meat and Livestock Australia are leading the charge to reduce the nation’s emission footprint and make the red meat sector carbon neutral by 2030.

According to CSIRO’s latest figures, released in April last year, the Australia’s red meat industry reduced emissions by 45 per cent between 2005 and 2015.

WA shadow agricultural minister Ian Blayney said the claims were “far-left socialist agenda” and damaged the rural sector’s confidence.