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The onslaught by the vegans comes as some claim that the farmers are a product of a “sick society.”

Joey Armstrong, 31, an Australian activist, said that he was against threats of violence towards the farmers but added that they shouldn’t “whinge.”

He told The Times: “Farmers are forcibly breeding animals, sexually exploiting them, then loading them into trucks to slaughter them. For them to say they are victims because a vegan said something mean is absurd.”

Mr Armstrong is a part of a growing army of vegans worldwide who believe that meat is created through murder. They believe that farmers are torturing animals and it is fundamentally wrong. They also see farms as torture chambers and say that vets commit rape by attending to animals.