Posted on 01/28/2024 10:49:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
French farmers are using their tractors to set up road blockades and slow traffic across France to seek better remuneration for their produce, less red tape and protection against cheap imports
Two climate activists hurled soup Sunday at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system. This came amid protests by French farmers against several issues, including low wages.
In a video posted on social media, two women with the words “FOOD RIPOSTE” written on their t-shirts could be seen passing under a security barrier to get closer to the painting and throwing soup at the glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece.
“What’s the most important thing?” they shouted. “Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?” “Our farming system is sick. Our farmers are dying at work,” they added.
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Feed these activists to French swine.
This is an attempt to obfuscate.
The government is actually on the side of the art defacers, not the farmers.
If you’re going to do this, at least do it at MOMA. That way it won’t matter.
Da Vinci was a big polluter of the enviro ment.
What is wrong with people? How does destroying priceless artwork help the environment?
Was it French onion soup?
I’m sure he was using petroleum-based paints back then?
Theoe soup at a wall in MOMA and they might frame it and give you a show. The greatest thing since Hunter Biden....
“what’s wrong with these people”? simple. they have never ever been disciplined. I’m proposing that the public stocks be brought back and cans of soup be provided to the public. and maybe a can opener or two. rotten vegetables optional.
I have a picture of me and my then wife standing in front of the Mona Lisa.
I really didn’t care for Paris much but The Louvre is worth the trip. There must be a million square feet of priceless art in that building. Little of it can be reproduced so it is truly an International Treasure.
And not recycling.
Probably a lead based paint Da Vinci used
“How does destroying priceless artwork help the environment?”
So you’d support destroying priceless art if it did help the environment to do so?
Just waiting to be doused in soup.
SPJNK
I’d rather see the pillory used on the climate activists, myself.
My only reason for going to Paris in 2006 was to take an all-day tour of the D-Day Landing Beaches. I had an extra two days there before taking the Euro-Star to London, so I visited the Louvre, and saw as much as I could both days, including the Mona Lisa. I went back to Paris from London for an overnight stay the following year with an old work friend because they had never been there. We took a boat ride down the Seine, hit the Louvre, saw the Mona Lisa again, and visited Chateau de Vincennes, which was just outside of Paris.
The building of Vincennes began in the 14th Century. Henry V of England died there on August 31, 1422, and the Marquis de Sade had been a prisoner there. During the First World War, the Dutch-born German spy Mata Hari was executed by a firing squad on October 15, 1917, in the moat of the Chateau.
During WWII, the Germans overwhelmed the French military that had been using Vincennes as a base to fight from. When the Nazis took it over, they stationed Waffen-SS soldiers there, and used it as a prison for resistance fighters. According to sources cited by Wikipedia: "One of the first members of the French Resistance, Jacques Bonsergent, was tried and executed there on November 10, 1940. On 20 August 1944, during the battle for the Liberation of Paris, 26 policemen and members of the Resistance arrested by soldiers of the Waffen-SS were executed in the eastern moat of the fortress, and their bodies thrown in a common grave. That same evening, French and American forces were closing in on the eastern part of Paris, and before they evacuated Vincennes, the Nazis blew up substantial parts of it.
A shocking abuse of perfectly good soup.
So thoroughly irrational. And they lose a great deal
Of support by such stupid antics too. Similar to BLM and pro- Fakestinian twrrorist “demonstrations” and disruptions in USA.
Sometimes the communists and Nazis can be stupid as all get- out with their antics
Not arguing with the French truckers’ girls just stupid tactics like attacking the Mona Lisa
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