Video: Climate Activists Throw Soup on Van Gogh’s Painting During Protest

Climate activists believed to be with Just Stop Oil threw cans of tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting and glued their hands to the wall.

The climate demonstration took place at the National Gallery in London where they were filmed approaching the protected painting and throwing what appeared to be a can of a tomato-based substance on the famous painting.

“What is worth more, art or life?” one of the young demonstrators said after gluing one hand to the wall. “Is it worth more than food? Worth more than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and our people?”

Videos from the demonstration were posted by The Guardian correspondent Damien Gayle, in which the protesters continued their speech, decrying the cost of fossil fuels as the root of struggling families’ problems.

“The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of 🛢️Oil crisis,” the protester said. “Fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold hungry families. They can’t even afford to heat a tin of soup.”

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Per USA Today, the gallery said “there is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed,” as the Oil