Just damn.
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Posted on 08/15/2005 2:05:08 PM PDT by steel_resolve
Would you eat food cooked in your own urine? Food scientists working for the US military have developed a dried food ration that troops can hydrate by adding the filthiest of muddy swamp water or even peeing on it.
The ration comes in a pouch containing a filter that removes 99.9 per cent of bacteria and most toxic chemicals from the water used to rehydrate it, according to the Combat Feeding Directorate, part of the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts. This is the same organisation that created the "indestructible sandwich" that will stay fresh for three years (New Scientist print edition, 10 April 2002).
The aim is to reduce the amount of water soldiers need to carry. One day's food supply of three meals, weighs 3.5 kilograms but that can be reduced to about 0.4 kilograms with the dehydrated pouches, says spokeswoman Diane Wood.
The pouch - containing chicken and rice initially - relies on osmosis to filter the water or urine. When two solutions of different concentrations are separated by a semipermeable membrane, with gaps that allow only water molecules to pass through, the water is drawn to the more concentrated side.
Hungry soldier
The membranes are made of thin sheets of a cellulose-based plastic, with gaps between the fibres that are just 0.5 nanometres across, too small for bacteria to pass through.
A hungry soldier pours dirty water into one end of a foil sachet containing two inner pouches separated by the membrane. The water seeps through the membrane into the dehydrated food on the other side. As it dissolves large molecules in the food, it creates a very high concentration solution. The osmotic pressure created then draws more water through the membrane.
Hydration Technology of Albany, Oregon, which makes the membrane, says soldiers should only use urine in an absolute emergency because the membrane is too coarse to filter out urea.
The body will not find this toxic over the short term, says Ed Beaudry, an engineer with HTI, but rehydrating food this way in the long term would cause kidney damage.
I'll have a B.L.T. - hold the Bladder!
Let me put it this way. I'd more likely eat something rehydrated by my urine than by someone else's.
Jerry Baker, that radio gardener guy who has all the home remedies, seems to really promote recycling wee-wee this way; after listening for a half hour or so, I'm really tempted to go out and take a whiz in the front (well, back) yard...
A little pizzel in yo shizzel.
More pee soup, please!
I guess as a last resort you could use your urine if you were brave or fool enough to do it. Not me.
During the first GW we ate anything that required rehydration dry. It wasn't that bad and besides potable water was in pretty short supply for a while. Didn't want to "waste" it by rehydrating some of the sides that came in the MREs.
The only dehydrated meals that I can remember were the sausage and beef patties. They weren't too bad, just hard to choke down.
Cheers!
You can always drink Coors Lite as a transitional step.
Luckily urine contains none of this.
BUSH BUDGET FORCES TROOPS TO DRINK URINE
Just damn.
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the dogs won't eat the tuna either? Can't blame ém.
The aim is to reduce the amount of water soldiers need to carry. One day's food supply of three meals, weighs 3.5 kilograms but that can be reduced to about 0.4 kilograms with the dehydrated pouches, says spokeswoman Diane Wood.
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I see shades of mad cow disease, Soilent Green. By feeding cows other cattle floor sweepings is how that all started. It isn't "natural" to consume what nature intended the body to expell from its self as WASTE matter. Recycling works with non living material like metal, glass, paper, not consumption for living animals.
"Peas pass the pee Pa."
Don't eat yellow snow.
BUSH BUDGET FORCES TROOPS TO DRINK URINE
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Or
SINdy Sheehan cries, "Bush tortured my baybay with Pee-meals before he died!"
dehydration?
You wouldn't have to pour the Coors Lite thru the filter, would you----there's nothing in it?
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