MMMM Yummy - Now my stomach aches
While doing a little research - I read about this ---
Portion Pac Inc., Stone Mountain, Ga., is being awarded a maximum $24,785,000 firm fixed priced contract for MRE spreads for use in the Meals Ready to Eat Assembly Program. This is an indefinite quantity type contract. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. There were 30 proposals solicited and three responded. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of completion is Dec. 20, 2006. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. SPM3S1-06-Z135.
OK - I am thinking maybe we will get new varieties with the new mre contract... That would be good news. We are keeping business in America - all is well.
So, doing more research I discovered:
Portion Pac Inc. of Stone Mountain, a subsidiary of ketchup-maker H.J. Heinz Co., on May 3 won an $11.2 million contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the Department of Defense unit that supplies the food eaten by American troops. The contract calls for the factory to make individual portions of cheese spreads, peanut butter and jam packaged by other companies into what are known as "meals-ready-to-eat," or MREs.
Now I am thinking - the few things I do eat out of the MREs are produced/distributed by HER.
Oh.... the irony of this all --- it looks like Kerry's wife - who does not support the war - is probably thrilled her company is winning contracts to SUPPORT the war.
Guess I will stick with the granola bars in the Vegetarian Entrees and Hoohah Bars.
Portion Pac Inc., Stone Mountain, Ga., is being awarded a maximum $24,785,000 firm fixed priced contract for MRE spreads for use in the Meals Ready to Eat Assembly Program. This is an indefinite quantity type contract. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. There were 30 proposals solicited and three responded. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of completion is Dec. 20, 2006. The contracting activity is Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. SPM3S1-06-Z135.
OK - I am thinking maybe we will get new varieties with the new mre contract... That would be good news. We are keeping business in America - all is well.
So, doing more research I discovered:
Portion Pac Inc. of Stone Mountain, a subsidiary of ketchup-maker H.J. Heinz Co., on May 3 won an $11.2 million contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the Department of Defense unit that supplies the food eaten by American troops. The contract calls for the factory to make individual portions of cheese spreads, peanut butter and jam packaged by other companies into what are known as "meals-ready-to-eat," or MREs.
Now I am thinking - the few things I do eat out of the MREs are produced/distributed by HER.
Oh.... the irony of this all --- it looks like Kerry's wife - who does not support the war - is probably thrilled her company is winning contracts to SUPPORT the war.
Guess I will stick with the granola bars in the Vegetarian Entrees and Hoohah Bars.
posted by soldierdeb at 9:01 AM
4 Comments:
Maybe it is appalling. But if they were supporting the war and selling food to the troops it would be called war profiteering. Which is bound to be perceived as REALLY appalling.
What it really shows is that the squoze tomato merchants are a little more capitalist than they'd like to admit.
Hey, the jet fuel & limo bills don't get paid by themselves, sister!
*hiccup!*
Sincerely, Theresa
Hasn't anyone explained that the initials don't actually stand for Meals Ready to Eat; they actually read out as:-
Meals Rejected by Ethiopians!
Kerry supported the war before he opposed it... Maybe this is like the SUV that wasn't _his_ SUV, it was the _family's_ SUV...
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