"Lettuce. Has. A. Heartbeat"

He slammed the protesters who chained themselves to vehicles in Melbourne’s CBD and stormed abattoirs in New South Wales and Queensland on Monday.

‘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,’ he said in a Facebook video.

‘I am just gobsmacked with some of the bulls**t that’s coming out these people’s mouths on what they are trying to achieve.’

Farrell said that one woman phoned him and tried to claim that lettuces are alive.