Climate activists this Sunday threw soup on the painting of the “Mona Lisa” in the Museum of Louvre in Paris (France), demanding the right to “healthy and sustainable food.” At the same time, they stated that “our agricultural system is sick.”
“What is more important, art or the right to healthy and sustainable food?” asked two women who carried out the protest action standing in front of the painting and speaking in turns. «Their agricultural system is sick. “Our farmers are dying working,” they proclaimed.
Here is the video of the action.
“What is more important, art or the right to healthy and sustainable food?” asked the two women.
Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, painted in the 16th century, is behind sturdy bulletproof glass, making it unlikely to have been damaged.
France, like other European Union (EU) countries, has been rocked this January by large-scale farmer demonstrations.
In protest against the policies of Emmanuel Macron’s government and the European Union (EU) on the agricultural sector, farmers block roads, build bonfires and leave guts, manure and other waste at the doors of commercial premises and government offices. .
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