Re: MRE's Revisited.

[Frederick Kircher Haskell <haskell@azstarnet.com>]

Scott Ripley wrote:
> 
> >                                        >
> >I answered that one,too. The only realistic thing I could come up >with
> >was dried rice & beans, w/ honey, salt,& dried vac-packed fruit. >    My
> >reasoning went like this: these items will keep you alive(tho' >not in a
> >very appetizing way),until you can either start on a crop,or >buy,
> >pick,or kill something else; also, they will store indefinately
> >>(www.fema.gov/home/fema/emfdwtr.html);MRE's have an approx 6-8yr
> >>storage life, most other packaged food will go bad sooner.
> >>                        M.Cessna
> 
> Gamma-irridiated vacuum-packed food will keep nearly forever!!! (you can't
> get it cause it's not Govt approved much yet).  It is not dried, dehydrated,
> smoked, canned, mixed..it is actual fresh food that keeps about 350 years so
> long as the plastic is intact.  THAT is most likely what the project provides.

I did not know they lasted that long. I always had the food frozen in
one of the lockers below the cryo tube and avoided the whole issue. I
knew about irridiated food (it was developed for chemo therapy patients
who can't have ANY germs on their food when the immune system is put
down) but figured it would be best to freeze it anyway.

Fred Haskell


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