EXCLUSIVE: Vegan activist who was bombarded with death threats after storming Coles dressed as a blood-soaked abbatoir worker claims police told her she only had herself to blame for the vile abuse
- Tash Peterson, 26, gained notoriety with Coles protests and AFL field invasion
- Now she gets threats from stalkers threatening to 'slit her throat' at her work
- She claims police refused to help and said she brought it on herself with activism
A vegan activist bombarded with death threats claims she was told by police she brought the abuse on herself with her public protests.
Tash Peterson, 26, gained notoriety by accosting Coles shoppers dressed as a blood-soaked abattoir worker and invading Perth Stadium during an AFL match.
Stalkers have in response sent her messages threatening to 'slit your throat' outside her workplace, and thrown meat on her parents' car.
Ms Peterson said she took screenshots of the threats to a police station in fear of being attacked if the threats were genuine, but was turned away.
'He said: "You are putting yourself out there so you have to expect things like this to happen",' she told Daily Mail Australia.
Vegan activist Tash Peterson claims she was told by police she brought death threats on herself with her public protests like this one at Coles
Stalkers have in response sent her messages threatening to 'slit your throat' outside her workplace
'"I'm not condoning this behaviour, but this is just something you need to deal with... We can't do anything about it".
'Is that not the same as telling a woman she's bringing it on herself if she reports an assault while walking alone at night?'
Ms Peterson said she was worried because the stalkers knew her exact address, where she worked, and her car.
'I can come with a knife and slit your throat at [name of workplace],' a message she received from an anonymous user read.
'I woulda shot you on the spot,' a comment on one of her TikTok videos read.
Another comment encouraged people to follow her car home and 'break into her house and harass her'.
Ms Peterson, 26, gained notoriety by accosting Coles shoppers dressed as a blood-soaked abattoir worker and invading Perth Stadium during an AFL match
'I woulda shot you on the spot,' a comment on one of her TikTok videos read
Another comment encouraged people to follow her car home and 'break into her house and harass her'
Someone claiming to be a farmer also sent a message threatening violence to any protesting vegan activists.
'I will be carrying a splitting axe with me and a rifle I will bring out if I am called an animal abuser,' it read.
'Then I will shoot the vegan that said it and all the other vegans there, I am going to jail for years but I am mental as anything.'
Ms Peterson said in the days after she went to the police, meat and cheese was thrown on her family's car and an animal bone in her driveway.
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'The police just did not take it seriously at all, in fact he insinuated that I was bringing it upon myself,' she said.
'This is disgusting, everyone deserves the right to stay safe.
'He was so immature and rude about it, I couldn't believe it. It was extremely degrading and disappointing.'
Ms Peterson on Monday went to a different police station and made her complaint again, including the attack on her home.
'A complaint was taken today by Palmyra Police and the matters will be investigated,' WA Police told Daily Mail Australia.
Someone claiming to be a farmer sent a message threatening violence to any protesting vegan activists
Another stalker writes Ms Peterson's house number to let her known they know where she lives
Ms Peterson said in the days after she went to the police, meat and cheese was thrown on her family's car and an animal bone in her driveway
Ms Peterson said she was worried because the stalkers knew her exact address, where she worked, and her car
Ms Peterson was last month fined $1,800 for running onto the ground during Western Australia's first AFLW derby in February.
The serial protester ran around for about a minute holding a black flag reading 'right to rescue' before she was tackled by Fremantle midfielder Kiara Bowers long enough for security to catch up.
She walked out of court with her mouth taped shut and animal slaughter sounds blaring, standing with a fellow activist on the court steps for several minutes holding signs reading 'it's time to listen to the animals'.
Just two weeks later she dressed as an abattoir worker covered in fake blood, holding a meat tray with a mock-severed human hand for sale, and stormed Coles and nearby butchers.
Peterson, 26, ran onto the oval with a black flag that read 'right to rescue' at Perth's Optus Stadium, late in the first half of the Fremantle and West Coast game on February 15
Ms Peterson earlier this month dressed as an abattoir worker covered in fake blood, holding a meat tray with a mock-severed human hand for sale, and stormed Coles and nearby butchers
She held a sign reading 'Australian free range human meat' to attack to meat industry for 'ethical', 'free range' and 'RSPCA-approved' while still killing animals.
Ms Peterson first grabbed the public's attention for a series of stunts in supermarkets where she dressed as an abattoir worker covered in fake blood holding a lamb.
Animal lovers have become concerned in recent years after allegations have emerged of animal cruelty in Australia's abattoirs.
Secret footage recorded by a university student in August last year at a Sydney abattoir showed a pig being shot at least eight times, and workers appearing to twist cows' tails to force them to walk into a knockbox.
Some of Ms Peterson's fellow activists have received criminal convictions for breaking into farms and 'rescuing' livestock.
Some of Ms Peterson's fellow activists, including James Warden, 25, (pictured), have received criminal convictions for breaking into farms and 'rescuing' livestock
