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In an effort to do to the military what they're doing to America, private industry has introduced a cost-cutting method of providing portable food for soldiers. Just add urine! The Combat Feeding Directorate, a branch of the US Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., commissioned the product from Hydration Technologies of Albany, Ore. The main feature of these new, lighter rations is a filter pouch that supposedly&nbsp;removes 99.9 percent of all toxic chemicals in urine or dirty water.
"The pouch - containing chicken and rice - relies on osmosis to filter the water or urine," the New Scientist Magazine reported. The liquid passes through a membrane, thin sheets of a cellulose-based plastic with gaps just 0.5 nanometres wide. It means only clean water can reach the food, and the bacteria is left behind. (Where? ) Of course, engineers at Hydration Technology recommend that soldiers use urine in their bladder banquets&nbsp;only as a last resort (a tip&nbsp;that I'm sure the soldiers&nbsp;will find most&nbsp;helpful).
While the pouch allegedly filters 99.9 percent of harmful bacteria, it is incapable of removing urea. Urea is the pissy part of urine, chronic use of which can lead to severe kidney malfunction (!! ) Besides, it tastes bad. I once read a quote that summed up the K-rations of World War II: "The food serves the dual purpose of sustaining the soldier while making him angry enough to kill. " Well, these new rations should piss them off pretty good. 
