In possibly the most talked-about single act of protest the climate movement has achieved thus far, last October, two young people from Just Stop Oil threw a can of Heinz cream of tomato soup on Van Gogh’s world-beloved Sunflowers painting. Phoebe and Anna We know what the humans thought of it. Thanks to extensive global press coverage, social media ‘virality’, and the fact that it made enough of an impression to become a talking point in everyday conversation, we’ve gotten the picture, so to speak, of public opinion. But what about the microbes living in the soup that was thrown? What did they think, being transported at high speed through the air, to be splattered on the glass in front of a masterpiece? What would the cow, tortured and slaughtered to put the cream in the cream of tomato, think of the action? What about the tomatoes? These are laughable questions. According to everything we’ve been taught by anthropocentric society, the opinions of plants, animals, microbes and inse