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Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters

Two environmental protesters have hurled soup on to the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, calling for “healthy and sustainable food”. The painting, which was behind bulletproof glass, appeared to be undamaged.

Gallery visitors looked on in shock as two women threw the yellow-coloured soup before climbing under the barrier in front of the work and flanking the splattered painting, their right hands held up in a salute-like gesture.

One of the two activists removed her jacket to reveal a white T-shirt bearing the slogan of the environmental activist group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) in black letters.

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[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It will make the climate crisis be covered in headlines and make it harder to ignore. This IS a legitimate form of protest. They didn't do any harm and brought attention to their cause.

[-] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

They weren't doing it for the climate crisis.

[-] norbert@kbin.social 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah the article is a bit strange. They call them environmental protesters but they seem to have been protesting food insecurity. Which I guess can be considered environmental but isn't usually what I think of.

[-] Grayox@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Especially when you consider the famines that yhe climate crisis will cause. And yeah that's piss poor reporting, they call them environmental Protesters multiple times...

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I think that's fine. Unless we're talking about greenhouses or urban indoor gardening, food grows in the environment. If you want to protect the food, you implicitly have to protect the environment, which makes you an environmentalist driven by food. There are lots of hazards which have little to do with climate (or at least which also have other, climate-unrelated causes), which can affect food. Invasive species, plastic, overfertilization, corporations, general socioeconomic disparities, just to name a few.

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