By Alana Mazzoni For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 01:39 BST, 4 April 2019 | Updated: 02:13 BST, 4 April 2019
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A vegan activist who joined 100 protesters as they broke into a farm and grabbed piglets 'suckling from their mothers' has been blasted for her 'arrogance' in court.
Leah Ava Whetton donned a 'Meat the Victims' t-shirt when she stormed the Glasshouse Country Farms in Queensland, in December last year.
Police were able to identify her as taking part after the the group shared photographs of the incident to Facebook.
Whetton had entered a 'reluctant' guilty plea in writing, Sunshine Coast Daily reported.
Whetton was one of more than 100 vegan activists to storm a Queensland farm in December
On Wednesday, Maroocydore Magistrates Court heard on how it was her fourth charge of unlawfully entering farming land in one year.
Days before fronting court Whetton boasted about storming a cattle farm, much to the alarm of the local farmer and his family.
'What we 'vegans' do is simple - we think of how those individuals would have felt. The ones who were shot & those who witnessed their family being shot. How much sadness & fear they felt,' Whetton's Instagram post read.
The magistrate said Whetton's letter to the court showed no remorse and claimed she was 'rescuing or saving animals from a bad situation'
The incident took place last month, when more than 150 vegans stormed a Queensland cattle farm as part of their fight for 'animal liberation'.
Shocking footage of the protest
