The 31-year-old dairy farmer was peppered with messages on social media questioning his industry’s ethics. 
An online troll, under the name Simon Wilson, who was promoting a vegan philosophy wrote on social media, “if you hadn’t had such an evil industry perhaps your son would still be here.” “You run a dairy farm, one of the cruelest industries out there. 
“Millions of cows dying not just for their meat but for their milk too (which we don’t need).”
Conservative Welsh Assembly member Sam Kurtz reported the messages according to The Mirror said he was “angered beyond belief.”  
Kurtz, who represents Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, said the death of Ianto had ‘hurt this close knit community deeply’, describing it as a ‘tragic event in West Wales.’  
Ianto’s mother Chloe said in a statement that her son loved helping his father on the family dairy farm and going out to the fields. 
“Ianto was my blue-eyed boy, he was an inspiration to life, he was a kind little boy who was always smiling and laughing,” she said. “He loved being out on the farm and going on the tractor with his daddy.