A notorious vegan activist has compared the slaughter of animals to the Holocaust.
Joey Carbstrong, who slammed dairy farmer Casey Treloar's emotional video about her failing family farm last month, appeared on the Today Show on Tuesday to discuss Australia's dairy industry.
When asked by hosts Georgie Gardner and Deborah Knight why he once compared dairy farmers to Adolf Hitler in a YouTube video, the militant activist insisted he had retracted the comment which he 'said in anger'.
But seconds later, the 32-year-old, who was previously jailed for possessing a firearm, likened the meat industry to the killing of six million Jews in the Second World War.
There are several legal ways to euthanise pigs in Australia, one of which includes carbon dioxide gas.
'The standard way we kill pigs in Australia is with a gas chamber. Exactly the same way Nazis killed Jews in World War Two,' Mr Carbstrong said.
'We're killing millions of pigs and they're screaming, begging for their lives in these gas chambers. How is that any different?
He continued: 'When you look at it through the animals' eyes, this is a holocaust.
'The word holocaust means slaughter or destruction on a mass scale.
'If 74 billion land animals, two trillion marine animals murdered every single year doesn't constitute a holocaust, I don't know what does.'
Last month the activist, whose real named is Joey Armstrong, caused outrage when he told a dairy farmer (pictured) heartbroken about giving up her family farm that she should 'get another job'
Joey Carbstrong, 32, (pictured) appeared on the Today Show on Tuesday to discuss Australia's dairy industry
Mr Carbstrong's comments have offended Jewish activists, who say the comparison between the Holocaust and animal slaughter perpetuates Hitler's ideology that Jews were subhuman.
Mr Carbstrong, whose real name is Joey Armstrong, initially made headlines when he told heartbroken dairy farmer Treloar to 'get another job'.
The 26-year-old shared an emotional video revealing her sadness at her family having to give up the farm they had owned for 40 years in Flerieu Peninsula, South Australia.
Mr Carbstrong posted a video to YouTube telling Ms Treloar and her family to deal with what he claimed was a decreasing demand for dairy products, saying the industry was an 'injustice'.
Asked why he did that, Mr Carbstrong told The Today Show: 'I wasn't very hurtful. I was quite sympathetic. I understand she's been culturally programmed to be a dairy farmer. It's been passed down traditionally. She's lost her job.
'I look at it through the eyes of the real victim, the animals.
'They have been exploited and turned into leather jackets, killed in a slaughter house. She can get another job, the animals cannot get another job, the animals cannot get another life.'
In his YouTube video about Ms Treloar, Mr Carbstrong said: 'What I found interesting is that she considered herself a cow person. Which is really, really bizarre seeing as all those cows go to the slaughterhouse, the bobby (newborn) calves are all killed, they're all taken away from their mothers, it's a horrifically cruel and abusive industry,' Mr Carbstrong said.
He claimed Ms Treloar was 'indoctrinated by dairy farming'.
'I mean it's been passed down traditionally, she said her father did it, her father's father probably did it too.
Ms Treloar (pictured), who is a third-generation dairy farmer in South Australia, was brought to tears as she said farewell to the industry she has grown up in
'Something she considers normal... but what's happening is demand is changing because we demand you release these animals and stop breeding them
