Climate protestors pelt $110M Monet painting with mashed potatoes
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The protest came just 9 days after activists from Just Stop Oil splashed tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers in London, England.
In yet another food-related protest, climate activists threw mashed potatoes at a US$110.7-million Claude Monet painting in a German museum on Sunday.
Monet’s Les Meules (Haystacks) at Museum Barberini in Potsdam was the target of the protest by the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation), which calls for greater environmental protection and the halting of fossil fuels.
The protest came just nine days after activists from Just Stop Oil splashed tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London, England.
In Germany, two Last Generation protestors dressed in high visibility orange vests threw the runny mashed potatoes over the artwork and glued their hands to the wall below.
“People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying,” said Mirjam Herrmann in German. “We are in a climate catastrophe, and all you are afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a painting.”
As buzz in the gallery erupted, Herrmann, 25, continued her speech.
“You know what I’m afraid of? I’m afraid because science tells us that we won’t be able to feed our families by 2050.”
Herrmann openly questioned what it will take for people to start paying greater attention to the climate emergency.
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