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You probably don't realize that your supermarket is filled with foods which have a military source: canned goods, packed deli meats, TV dinners, cling cover, energy bars...the list is almost endless. In fact, there are a watered-down combat ration lurking in pretty much every bag, package, can, container, jar, and carton People in america buy. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo shows how the Department of Protection Fight Feeding Directorate programs, cash, and spreads the meals science that permits it to produce cheap, imperishable rations. It works together with an huge network of university or college, government, and industry collaborators such as ADM, ConAgra, General Mills, Hershey, Hormel, Mars, Nabisco, Reynolds, Smithfield, Swift, Tyson and Unilever. It's a good deal for both sides: the conglomerates get exclusive patents or a headstart on the next breakthrough technology; the Army ensures that it offers commercial suppliers if it ever needs to make millions of rations. And for all of us consumers, who eat this food originally designed for soldiers on the battlefield? We're the guinea pigs in a huge public health experiment, one where technology and technology, at the beck of the armed forces, took over our kitchens.
