Topic: Here come da vegans! Here come da vegans!

[oldcoastie6468]

Norwegian army goes on vegetarian diet

AFP - 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 -- 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.

"It's a step to protect our climate. The idea is to serve food that's respectful of the environment," spokesman Eystein Kvarving told AFP.

The diet has already been introduced at one of Norway'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.

 

http://www.france24.com/en/20131119-norwegian-army-goes-vegetarian-diet

[Glock32]

Yes, these are the guys who used to be the terror of Europe, from Britain to the Black Sea. Now they're a bunch of tofu eaters.

[Predator Don]

If I have a business, let's say pizza and I deliver......I would run the heck out of specials on meatless Monday.

[Libertas]

Norwussians!   

[Septugenarian]

Heh!  I sent the article link to a friend in a neighboring country.  His response, "Well.. this just points out that norwegians are dumber than I thought."  Forrest Gump had it right.

[Magnum]

A vegan diet is not healthy for you. I follow the Biblical diet or the Mediterranean diet.

I have kept my weight consistent through the past 30 years. I admit I too run, do Plyometrics  and lift weights. I have kept up my strength and I attribute some of this to my protein intake trough meat.

I tried the vegan diet for a time just to see the effects and I can say it seems to make one weaker, less energetic, and many of those on vegan diets eat soy which increases estrogen levels in men and in essence makes them less manly?  .
 

[AlanS]

...... many of those on vegan diets eat soy which increases estrogen levels in men and in essence makes them less manly  .

That should really work well for Algore.

[John Florida]

 

[KittenClaws]

Norwegian army goes on vegetarian diet

AFP - 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 -- 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.

"It's a step to protect our climate. The idea is to serve food that's respectful of the environment," spokesman Eystein Kvarving told AFP.

The diet has already been introduced at one of Norway'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.

 

http://www.france24.com/en/20131119-norwegian-army-goes-vegetarian-diet

How about serving food that is respectful of your military asshats?

[RickZ]

A vegan diet is not healthy for you. I follow the Biblical diet or the Mediterranean diet.

There's definitely a difference between a vegan diet and a vegetarian diet.  Vegans forego all animal products including {GASP} cheese (because it's made from animals' milk).  Vegans don't eat eggs, either.  They are basically only eating veggies though they ignore the screams of the carrots on whom they commit genocide.  Vegans go so far with the anti-animal crap that they will not wear wool or leather products, either, as if the sheep could survive wearing all that unshorn wool; they'd be a chia pet on steroids.  If you don't milk a dairy cow that has no calf, they have a tendency to die from bacterial infection from the soured milk, mastitis (an infection in the mammary ducts in the udder caused by a build up of milk which harbors bacteria).  Not a quick and painless death by any means.

Vegetarians eat a much healthier diet.  I'm no vegetarian, but I do enjoy meatless days; as a kid meatless days were a necessity so my Mom could stretch the food budget (mac 'n cheese dinners. e.g., while today she might have made a pasta with red or cream sauce sauce and cheese).  Vegetarians eat eggs and milk and milk products, like cheese.  Some vegetarians will not eat animal flesh but will eat seafood.

Given a forced choice, I'd rather go vegetarian than vegan.

I also think a vagitarian diet is not a bad thing.

[Glock32]

I also think a vagitarian diet is not a bad thing.

 

[oldcoastie6468]

 

[John Florida]

  Here's my answer.

[Predator Don]

Monday vegan day....... Symbolism over substance.

[OldSailor]

  Here's my answer.

A man after my own heart!

[Pandora]

  Here's my answer.

Mine too.

Although, I have to say, there are evenings when we have meal with no meat.  Not because I've decided that "tonight we have no meat", but because I make a few dishes that simply have none, and we've had a jonesing.

It's the deliberate avoidance of meat by some people that irritates me, moreso that they characterize some food as "meatless", as though there's some virtue in the "sacrifice".