John Wood’s Meat and Greet British Farming Facebook page became very popular when he set it up last year.

The farmer promoted “Meaty March” as a counter to “Veganuary”.

However, not all who viewed his musings were supportive. Police briefed the Dorset farmer of the dangers of being so vocal about meat-eating.

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“When you’re looking under your tractors in the morning for bombs, nobody should be living like that,” Wood told The Daily Telegraph.

“I don’t say to anybody: ‘If you don’t eat meat, you’re scum.’ If I did that I’d be branded a lunatic – these people go out regularly and do the opposite, it’s not acceptable.”

Vegan activist Emma Christoforakis was given a two-year restraining order and fined over £1,000, having harassed the sheep farmer on his farm and at public farming events, calling him a “murderer”.