The four-year-old was returned to mum Ellie and stepdad Jake Gliddon 18 days after she was kidnapped from a remote campsite during a family holiday.<\/p>\n
Moving bodycam footage captured the moment Cleo was rescued by detectives, with the little girl gently told she would soon see her ‘mummy and daddy’.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n But Ms Peterson claimed abducting a child was no morally different to taking baby animals in the meat and dairy industry.<\/p>\n Tash Peterson (pictured) has compared the abduction of four-year-old Cleo Smith to baby animals who are taken from their mothers for milk and beef production<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Little Cleo (pictured) was miraculously returned to her grateful parents 18 days after she mysteriously vanished from the Blowholes Campsite in remote Western Australia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n ‘Whilst Australia celebrates the rescue of Cleo…the majority of the nation pay people to steal babies from their mothers and shoot them in the head on dairy farms,’ she captioned an image of a young cow.<\/p>\n ‘This is an image of a five day old baby awaiting his murder in a slaughterhouse in Tasmania.<\/p>\n ‘Males born in the dairy industry are often murdered just days old because they don’t produce milk.’<\/p>\n The militant vegan went on to claim people who bought dairy products supported the ‘rape, slavery, abuse, murder and the abduction of babies’.<\/p>\n ‘One day this heinous crime towards non humans will be illegal just like it is amongst humans.Be on the right side of history, live vegan.’<\/p>\n Some commenters agreed with the comparison that ‘every mother is a mother’, but even some of her most loyal supporters said she had gone too far.<\/p>\n Her statement on Facebook (pictured) came soon after it was announced police had freed little Cleo from a locked home in Carnarvon\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The militant vegan – also known online as\u00a0@vganbootyy said the abduction of a child is no morally different to the abduction of babies in the dairy industry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In one of her latest protests the social media influencer marched into the designer store in Perth wearing only a nude G-string, with red paint daubed from her chest down to her crotch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n ‘You cannot be serious?The nation is in tears of relief about this precious little girl being found safe and you’re using her already to feed your agenda?’ one wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘Can count on you to make something as sweet as little Cleo’s story all about you and your ‘cause’,’ a second wrote.<\/p>\n ‘I have been following you Tash and respected what you do and getting your point out but this is majorly next level and quite frankly wrong!’ another fan commented.<\/p>\n ‘This young girl should not be used to gain your ‘likes’ and ‘followers’.’<\/p>\n Despite the online backlash, the controversial plant-based campaigner doubled down on her claims and lashed out at her critics.<\/p>\n ‘It’s fascinating witnessing the cognitive dissonance and how challenged people are feeling from a statement that I made which points out the blatant hypocrisy within our society,’ she wrote.<\/p>\n ‘Triggered animal abusers can’t even figure out that they pay for abuse, torture, slavery and murder’ the activist replied to comments slamming the comparison\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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