It’s not been a good couple of weeks for vegan activist Chris Delforce. First, it was revealed that his mother – who is apparently very supportive of her little boy’s anti-farm bullying – is a senior agriculture bureaucrat in the Australian government. Next, it transpired that his “Aussie Farms” map – the blueprint for terrorising vegan raids on family farms – conveniently neglected to include a cattle farm owned by his own family.
Now it turns out that Australia’s most notorious vegan can’t tell the difference between a lettuce and a chicken.
Animal activist Chris Delforce has listed one of Victoria’s largest vegetable farms on the Aussie Farms map after he mistook the property for a poultry farm. The Weekly Times can reveal at least one vegetable farm is listed on the map, which claims to pinpoint locations and businesses “known or suspected to be engaging in animal cruelty or exploitation”.
The vegetable grower, who The Weekly Times will not name, said he was definitely not being cruel to his vegies.
“We don’t farm any livestock here, but we do have some free-range lettuce,” the grower said. “This goes to show Aussie Farms doesn’t know what they are talking about.”
In fact, what Delforce and his fellow activists don’t know turns out to be quite considerable.
The vegetable grower’s property is pinpointed on the Aussie Farms map with a question mark and the words “unknown”.
Aussie Farms executive director Chris Delforce said the “unknown” farms on the map were those he suspected were poultry or broiler businesses.
He has labelled 1246 or 21 per cent of the 5779 farms and businesses on his map as “unknown”.
Mr Delforce, who boasts about his map being “comprehensive” and eight years in the making, admitted the registered charity did not actually know if all properties on the map farmed animals.
You’d think that would be kind of important information for animal activists to have. After all, this is the map that Delforce uses to smear thousands of decent, law-abiding farmers as animal cruelty perpetrators.
This is despite Mr Delforce telling The Weekly Times last week all farms and businesses listed on the map were “known or suspected to be engaging in animal cruelty or exploitation”.
Victorian Farmers Federation president David Jochinke said the revelations reinforced that the map was an “absolute disgrace”.
“This goes to show that the map is wildly inaccurate and more needs to be done to get it taken down,” he said. “It is defamatory and is taking a toll on farmers’ mental health due to the false accusations”.
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Still, Delforce’s latest slip-up highlights some difficult issues. For instance, if a farmer runs over a vegan activist with his tractor, is that animal cruelty or vegetable farming?