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Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian
cold fjord writes "It looks like no more spam, spam, spam for Norway's warriors... at least on Mondays. The Daily Caller reports, 'Norway's military is taking drastic steps to ramp up its war against global warming. The Scandinavian country announced its soldiers would be put on a vegetarian diet once a week to reduce the military's carbon footprint. "Meatless Monday's" has already been introduced at one of Norway's main military bases and will soon be rolled out to others, including overseas bases. It is estimated that the new vegetarian diet will cut meat consumption by 150 tons per year. "It's a step to protect our climate," military spokesman Eystein Kvarving told AFP. "The idea is to serve food that's respectful of the environment." ... The United Nations says that livestock farming is responsible for 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Cutting meat consumption, environmentalists argue, would help stem global warming and improve the environment." — The Manchester Journal reports, "The meatless Monday campaign launched in 2003 as a global non-profit initiative in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University to promote personal and environmental health by reducing meat consumption.'"
If you look at the history, islam was actually the starting point of the current equality movement, as it was the first large organized religion codified in law the fact that certain people generally viewed as "worthless" (i.e. women in christianity) actually had enough value to be able to match superior people (i.e. men in christianity) in a court of law.
No amount of women giving evidence could ever match a man in christian court. Man was inherently a superior being to a woman according to christianity - something that much of christianity still actively practices. Yet evidence by several women (you'll have to look up the exact amount, I can't be bothered at the moment) can actually defeat evidence provided by a man in islamic court.
It's pretty ironic that so many people are ignorant of that historical fact. We imported this concept along many other things such as out numeric system from Middle East.
And you are absolutely correct, islam just like most organized religions is full of intolerance today. Same goes for christianity - most of advances in tolerance have come from secular world, and imposed on local religion. Christianity fought it tooth and nail and lost in most places. Islam is in the progress of fighting the same thing today.