Protesters hurled soup on the Mona Lisa on Sunday morning at the Louvre museum in Paris.

The world’s most well-known painting was left covered in what appeared to be tomato soup as two activists wearing shirts with the words “Food Response” emblazoned on them launched into a speech about sustainable agriculture and the food supply chain.

The painting is protected behind a glass panel.

In a video that captured the act, voices in the background can be heard expressing shock with groans of “No”. Children can be heard crying in the footage.

“Our agricultural system is sick,” one of the activists shouts. “Our farmers are dying at work. One in three French people doesn’t eat three meals a day.”

Museum staff moved swiftly to block the view of the smeared painting and the activists in front of it. They erected dividers to block the painting.

French farmers have been mounting blockades and roadblocks in protest of work conditions, wages and excessive regulations over the last week.

In 2022, a man in a wheelchair disguised as a woman threw cake at the painting shouting at visitors to “think of the Earth.”