Would you eat urine-hydrated rations?

I can see the convenience of carrying such rations, but the idea of eating re-hydrated food using urine is downright disgusting. Dirty swamp water? Sure, I can manage to stomach that idea. But the idea of urinating on a food packet and sharing with buddies is a bit strange.

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.

Kind of reminds me of the urine-to-water converter in the movie Water World.