In a body of work titled 'Animal Holocaust', a northern New South Wales artist uses Nazi Germany symbolism to depict modern day animal farming.

'When Will We Ever Learn'. (: Jo Frederiks )

Jo Frederiks says there is no such thing as humane meat. (ABC : Margaret Burin )

Jo Fredericks grew up on a remote central Queensland station, where her father managed 10,000 head of cattle.

Today she lives a vegan lifestyle, substituting everything she uses and consumes with products not linked to animal production.

Paintings of bleeding carcases and cramped feedlots lie around the living room of her Murwillumbah home.

One reads, "There is no such thing as humane meat".

Later this month her exhibition, Animal Holocaust, will go on display at the Gold Coast.

The comparison has been made by several writers in the past, including Jewish Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer who wrote, "for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka".

Ms Fredericks says, similar to animals, Jews were once exterminated because they were considered to be 'lesser beings'.

"I'm just going by... reading the letters that they wrote from the concentration camps, where they compared their own suffering to the suffering of animals," she said.

"We can exploit animals, we can torture them, we can kill them at our whim, purely for the trivial reason of taste because we consider them the lesser being."

Australia's meat and dairy industries are predicted to grow significantly over the coming decades.

A report released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) in 2012 projects Australia's agricultural production will be 77 per cent higher in 2050, with beef, milk, sheep meat and wheat forecast to have the largest increases.

Ms Fredericks said the prospect is horrifying.

"Cattle are not kept on stations the way they used to be. It's all going down the path of feedlots where they are crammed into a tiny yard and fed grain; it's a lot more profitable because they get fatter a lot quicker," she said.

"It's an insane way to treat an animal just because we eat it, it's barbaric.

"The message is just to spread awareness about a subject that I think that many people don't want to know, or would rather stay in denial, about."

The exhibition will be opened by Phillip Wollen OAM, former vice president of Citibank and founder of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust, a global initiative that campaigns for social justice and animal rights.

British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough and UN Messenger of Peace and chimpanzee expert Dame Jane Goodall have both been recipients of the venture's 'kindness gold medal' for dedicating their lives to humanitarian causes.