Military foods could enhance soldiers’ performance by 2025 — “U.S. soldiers of 2025 will be eating foods that

are a combination of hometown comfort and

space-age wizardry.

‘Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army

Applications,’ a report released today (Wednesday,

6/20) by the National Research Council’s Board on

Army Science and Technology, lays out a vision of foods

and agricultural activities that will keep future warriors

fed, disease-free and even safe from friendly fire.” The Defense Dept. looks to be shaping up as a major consumer of genetically modified foods — to enhance caloric content and digestibility, rapidity of growth, fold in antimicrobial factors, and even to include biological markers that could be used to distinguish friend from foe in firefights.