{"id":13192,"date":"2013-11-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/11\/30\/norway-s-military-goes-veggie-one-day-a-week\/"},"modified":"2013-11-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T12:00:00","slug":"norway-s-military-goes-veggie-one-day-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/11\/30\/norway-s-military-goes-veggie-one-day-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s Military Goes Veggie&#8211;One Day a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/2013-11-20\/europe\/44283734_1_vegetarian-diet-meat-consumption-climate-change\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OSLO, NORWAY, November 20, 2013 (Times of India): The Norwegian military said Tuesday it plans to put its troops on a vegetarian diet once a week in a bid to fight a new kind of enemy &#8212; climate change. The army said its new meatless Mondays are meant to cut its consumption of ecologically unfriendly foods whose production contributes heavily to global warming. &#8220;It&#8217;s a step to protect our climate. The idea is to serve food that&#8217;s respectful of the environment,&#8221; spokesman Eystein Kvarving told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The diet has already been introduced at one of Norway&#8217;s main bases and will soon be rolled out to all units, including those serving overseas, said the army, estimating it would cut its meat consumption by 150 tonnes per year. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about saving money,&#8221; said Kvarving. &#8220;It&#8217;s about being more concerned for our climate, more ecologically friendly and also healthier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Norwegian environmental group that campaigns for meatless Mondays nationwide, The Future in Our Hands, welcomed the army announcement. &#8220;The defense ministry deserves a lot of praise because it&#8217;s taking climate and environmental issues seriously,&#8221; said the group&#8217;s director, Arild Hermstad. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source OSLO, NORWAY, November 20, 2013 (Times of India): The Norwegian military said Tuesday it plans to put its troops,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}