A farmer in Australia has been captured on camera firing a warning shot from a shotgun after vegan activists refused to stop filming his farm.

Australia news channel Sunrise reported that two vegan activists had been parked on a public road outside a Perth farm during the week. The activists were taking photos of the farmer’s cattle.

In a video taken by one of the activists, the farmer approaches the pair and asks them to stop filming both him and his property and to go protest somewhere else.

After refusing to leave the farmer, Jason Paravacini, returned with a shotgun and fired a warning shot, away from the direction of the car.

If they want to be vegan by all means be vegan. That is their choice but just leave us alone

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In an interview after the incident, one of the vegan activists James Warden said: “These farming communities are an echo chamber for this type of violence. It does not surprise me whatsoever that they are targeting and acting in violence to human beings.”

Paravacini said he was provoked by the activists: “If they want to be vegan by all means be vegan. That is their choice but just leave us alone.

“Not for a minute would I want to hurt anyone, especially with a firearm. That would be crazy.”