A group of people shut down Melbourne’s CBD when protestors were holding up signs about animal welfare in a demonstration.

Protesters also protested at farms across Australia while they chained themselves to abattoirs and demanded to take the livestock to a better place.

The protests were condemned by many and even the Prime Minister, but the farmers think that this type of activism is completely ridiculous.

Brendan Farell, the founder of Burrumbuttock Hay Runners, is the man who created a group to help distribute hay to those farmers that are struggling, he spoke about the incident yesterday.

He said, “Vegans are going bananas. Blockades left, right and centre. Flinders Street Station is in chaos. Abattoirs chained up, people locking themselves up here, there and everywhere. I am just gobsmacked with some of the bullshit that’s coming out these people’s mouths on what they are trying to achieve.”

39 people were arrested in the Melbourne, CBD protests, a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old were included.

9 more were arrested after they went into a property and chained themselves to a conveyor belt in New South Wales.

20 people were released without being arrested or charged after they entered an abattoir in Queensland, the owner had to hand over 3 lambs in order to get the 20 people out of the property.