The trace amounts of dirt that come with the garbage from the mainlands is enough to fill some containers in the agricultural facilities in some of the main cities.

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The crops that grow, however, are stunted and bitter. Unless you want a few shriveled, pale, sour peas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you'd better acquire a taste for rat or gull. Hey, the rats eat each other, so sometimes you get a rat that's eaten another rat. That's, like, protein squared, right?