Animal rights campaigners from Farm Transparency Project have accused Australian pig farmers of bestiality and challenged them to 'keep their hands off the genitals of male pigs.'

The group has released new footage showing the practice of semen collection on a Victorian pig farm, which shows a worker manually masturbating boars to force them to ejaculate, alongside a call for Australian pig farmers to participate in 'No Nut November,' a popular online trend promoting abstinence for the month of November.

In an open letter to Australian pig farmers shared by the group, they call on pig farmers to 'resist masturbating boars for the entire month of November, in the hopes that this will give the Australian Pork industry an opportunity to reflect on whether industry-approved bestiality is in line with societal expectations.'

Executive Director of Farm Transparency Project, Chris Delforce, says that, while what they are demanding may be tongue-in-cheek, it highlights a very real issue in animal agriculture.

"Almost all animal agriculture industries involve the sexual exploitation of animals. In the pig farming industry, male animals are forced to ejaculate through manual stimulation, while female pigs will be aroused by workers rubbing their vulva, before having vials of boar semen inserted into their vagina."

"Laws surrounding bestiality reflect that animals cannot consent to sexual interactions with humans, yet they completely fall away when it comes to the millions of animals kept in farms across the country."

"We believe that the law in Australia should ban all forms of bestiality, whether it is occurring on a farm or elsewhere. And we think that the vast majority of the public would agree with us on this."