Here's an interesting article and ensuing dialogue about how our unhealthy food system is undermining the military.
Could intentionally chunking up ever become the draft-dodging method of choice? (That is, assuming we ever get into another entanglement requiring such drastic measures as a draft.)
More pertinently, this AlterNet article points to a series of food issues facing our society, which impacts sectors like health insurance and agribusiness more so than the military. As the cliché goes: food for thought ...