Vegetarians forced the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania to create a new menu
Vegetarians claimed that their rights were violated during service, and that they needed a separate menu. Without providing such a menu, vegetarians threatened to sue. After considering this issue, the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense decided to satisfy the requirements and develop the mentioned alternative menu for soldiers' canteens.
The alternative menu, which will be offered where there are vegetarians, will include only vegetable foods: fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereals, etc. In the menu there will be no fish, no meat, no dairy products, no pastries using eggs. The normal menu will remain unchanged.
Портал Delphi referring to the head of the logistics department of the Lithuanian army, lieutenant-colonel (title, similarly to our version of “lieutenant colonel”) Ramunas Baronas informs that work is underway to create a balanced menu with the necessary energy value for military personnel. True, this will have to suffer a little, having calculated how much carrots can replace one beef patty ...
It is said that the logistics department “takes into account the concerns of servicemen” and is working on the menu structure together with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania.
At the same time, it was added that an alternative menu would be mandatory introduced in military units even if in one of them one vegetarian and several hundred servicemen with usual gastronomic preferences are serving.
In all this stories One question arises: how far is the Lithuanian Armed Forces command ready to go in the direction of meeting the requests of individual servicemen. Will the necessary conditions be created, for example, if a soldier (and in Lithuania from last year the conscription to the troops was renewed) declares that he cannot serve without the mother's skirt ...
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