[Lucas1]

Exactly...change the color of these food packets. This has been a problem in the past. Why can't we get it right.

[gridlock]

It hasn't been a problem in the past, except to the hand-wringing class. Both the bomblets and the food are high-visibility yellow to make them easier to see on the ground. You want people to be able to see the bomblets because they are an area-denial weapon. You want people to be able to see the food for the obvious reason.

Does anybody actually have an example where a bomb was mistaken for food?

That said, I guess the food could be packaged in high-visibility orange. But then it might be confused with some other piece of military hardware, for all I know.

[smith288]

The cost to go through all our cluster bomb or ration drops is enormous...

This is a minor worry and hasnt resulted in mass deaths... I would venture to say there has been more crayon related deaths a year than cluster-mistaken-for-food accidents.