Meat, no matter where it was, belonged to the more expensive tier of food.
Therefore, only a small portion of the factories throughout the Goa Kingdom produced meat, while most of the rest produced vegetarian foods.
And most of those vegetarian foods were related to the ocean.
The Goa Kingdom was known as the most beautiful kingdom in the East Blue.
And the reason it held that title was not merely because the "waste terminal Gray Terminal" had once been burned down, nor because of a casual compliment from the Celestial Dragons.
One had to know that beauty was, most of the time, tied to abundance.
The Goa Kingdom was beautiful largely because of its rich geographical environment and surrounding waters.
The Goa Kingdom lay somewhat centrally in the East Blue. Due to its unique geographical environment, it saw no major storms all year round.
Moreover, the waters around the kingdom had always been relatively calm and mostly shallow, making fisheries and other resources exceptionally abundant.
That was also one of the key reasons Roy had set his sights on this kingdom.
Its abundant fisheries could provide enough meat, but more importantly, its calm marine environment allowed large quantities of edible algae to be cultivated.
In the Pirate World, a world with vast seas and scarce land—
Ever since Roy had planned to unify the entire East Blue, he had known that he would need massive quantities of food as one of the foundations of his rule.
Growing conventional crops on land was clearly neither practical nor worthwhile in the Pirate World, where a great flood was about to erupt and sea levels were steadily rising.
Thus, Roy had turned his gaze toward the vast and bountiful ocean.
The fertile sea could accommodate everything. Growing crops at sea was not