Prime Minister Mia Mottley has chastised animal rights activists who she chided for waging a public campaign that portrays Barbados as a nation that turns a blind eye to animal cruelty.She declared that the actions of these individuals were tantamount to “terrorism against the state”, as she defended her government’s efforts to deal with the animal abuse problem.Though not naming any particular organisation, a straight-talking Mottley publicly chastised those seeking to lead boycotts against the island in response to comments by two activists at Wednesday night’s Christ Church Speaks town hall meeting at the Christ Church Foundation School.The Prime Minister said while she was horrified by and would not condone maltreatment of “any living organism”, the “campaign waged against the country that this is no more a tropical paradise is a disproportionate action on the part of those who would like to have action taken by the Government”.