14 DAY TRIAL // This past Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Norwegian army announced that the country's troops were to embrace a vegetarian diet in an attempt to help curb global warming and climate change.
More precisely, the Norwegian military will from now on eat anything but meat each Monday of the week.
Speaking on behalf of Norway's military, Eystein Kvarving stressed that, although this change in the troops' dietary habits would probably yield some benefits money-wise, the measure was by no means implemented solely due to financial considerations.
On the contrary, the goal is to reduce the army's consumption of “ecologically unfriendly foods,” and thus help put a leash on climate change and global warming.
Digital Journal tells us that, now that the Norwegian army has adhered to the Meatless Monday movement, its yearly meat consumption is expected to drop by about 150 tons.
Given the fact that livestock farming has several times been blamed for releasing loads of greenhouse gas emissions into our planet's atmosphere, this can only come as good news.
Presently, just one of the Norwegian army's military bases has officially embraced this environmentally friendly diet.
However, spokesperson Eystein Kvarving says that it will not be long before the Meatless Mondays initiative reaches other units stationed either in the country or overseas.
Environmental benefits aside, it is likely that Norwegian troops will also experience a noteworthy improvement in their overall health condition as a result of their cutting their weekly meat intake.
This is because, as several studies have shown, opting for fruits and vegetables instead of meat is bound to reduce both stroke and heart attack risk.
Interestingly enough, it appears that the Norwegian army did not reach the conclusion that it would be best to at least partly give up meat on its own. On the contrary, green group The Future Is in Our Hands had a big say in the matter. Thus, these environmentalists were the ones who first put the idea in the troops' heads.