Scott Morrison wants vegan activists who target farmers’ homes to face jail terms of up to 12 months

Vegan activists who post the personal details of farmers and their properties online could face a year behind bars under new laws proposed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.    

Morrison has promised to introduce punishments of up to 12 months in jail for people who make it easier for vegan activists to trespass onto farms and abattoirs.

Activist group ‘Aussie Farms’ is under fire after they publicly posted a map and personal details of farms across the country -inciting vegan protests.

A number of people also chained themselves to the vehicles that were draped in black and emblazoned with the web address of a vegan film documentary

The interactive map lists the location of hundreds of rural properties – including livestock farms, meat-works and dairies. 

‘They are being targeted in the most mercenary way by an organisation that can only think of itself and not think of the real damage that is being done to the livelihoods of these hard-working Australians,’ Mr Morrison said on Wednesday. 

He promised to introduce laws banning people from inciting criminal activity against farmers, with jail terms up to 12 months. 

More details of the proposed laws will be announced later today by Attorney General Christian Porter. 

Morrison’s announcement comes after a string of synchronised protests across the country on Monday.

More than 100 protesters Melbourne’s peak hour traffic to a standstill when they chained themselves to vehicles outside Flinders Street Station.  

Activists also invaded abattoirs and farms in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland – actions Scott Morrison described as ‘un-Australian’. 

One protester was charged with obstructing an emergency worker and could be jailed for five years.

Two 17-year-olds, a 15-year-old and 36 adults were charged with offences relating to obstructing a roadway and resisting police.

Vegan protesters who target farmers’ homes could face a year in jail under new laws proposed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison

Monday’s coordinated protests come after a swarm of more than 150 radical animal rights activists stormed a Queensland cattle farm last month. 

Shocking footage of the protest showed a distressed farmer look on as activists entered the property at Millmerran, 75 kilometres west of Toowoomba. 

Lot feeder David McNamee later told Daily Mail Australia the vegans’ actions were distressing for his family and had put his livestock at risk. 

Police have warned protesters who plan to repeat Monday’s demonstrations that they should change their tactics or they will risk further arrests. 

The activists didn’t just face opposition from police, with a number of hecklers slamming the protest, including a man wearing a clown mask who yelled ‘eat more meat’. 

Vegetable growers have also condemned radical animal rights protesters and called for them to be arrested. 

AUSVEG said they stand behind farmers across the country, and have thrown their support behind the prime minister’s proposal. 

‘It is appalling that vegan activists attack our fellow agriculture producers and their livelihoods,’ AUSVEG CEO James Whiteside said. 

‘Ausveg is supportive of freedom of choice for Australian consumers.’

He said the vegan protests assumed consumers were unable to make an informed decision for themselves.

‘The radical views and actions of these individuals are not representative of the community, including those that are vegan.’

Wearing white coveralls covered in black shirts that read: ‘Meat the Victims’, the protesters cut across the Lemontree Feedlot land in Queensland last month