Vegan campaigner Joey Carbstrong criticised after confronting farming couple who received death threats

A vegan activist who claimed on This Morning that the dairy industry “sexually violates” cows has been criticised as “aggressive” and “arrogant.”

Joey Carbstrong, an Australian vegan campaigner appeared on This Morning yesterday alongside farmers Jonny and Dulcie Crickmore, who have reported receiving death threats in relation to their rearing methods.

During the heated discussion Carbstrong described artificial insemination in female cows as “sexual abuse” and justified other activists who deem the process rape.

“Cows are artificially inseminated with a fist up their anus. When she can’t produce any more, she is murdered for her body,” he said.

“It is sexual abuse. We are sexually violating a sentient being against their will. That is amoral – they cannot give consent to this.”

Subsequently, when asked by presenter Philip Schofield if the method could really be described as rape he replied, “If the victim was a human being we would call it that.”

Nonetheless, farmers Jonny and Dulcie Crickmore defended their trade against Carbstrong’s accusations and explained how they found the consistent use of words like rape, murder and slavery by so-called activists as “offensive.”

“Rape is an act of sexual predation; murder is one human being purposely killing another human being; and slavery is one human being enslaving another human being,” Dulcie said.

Carbstrong’s hard-hitting approach quickly backfired as viewers took to Twitter where he was branded as “unreasonable” and “aggressive.”

“He doesn’t even listen. Just looks for a moment to interject and shove his views, quite aggressively, down everyone’s throats. What an arrogant man,” one person wrote.

Another added, “If these activists used a sensible argument more people might take notice, but when worlds like murder and rape are bandied about they become a laughing stock.”

This isn’t the first time Carbstrong’s provocative views have caused a furore though.

Earlier this week, Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine was about to interview the animal rights activist, when he spotted Vine’s ham and cheese sandwich sitting on the desk.

The offending object triggered a tirade of abuse, with the ham denigrated as “the flesh of a dead pig [and] the dead body of an animal that didn’t want to die”.

Similarly, he said that the cheese had come from “a mother who had her children taken from her” and added that “this is probably why vegans would say a dairy farmer is akin to a rapist.”