User blog comment:Night at the Kashmir/My Theory why Sally was really sent to Fontaine's./@comment-3967731-20140925213320

An excellent theory Night at the Kashmir. That wasn't a prime concerne of mine when I played, but it did leave a nagging question of "why" in the back of my head.

I'd like to piggy back on this discussion with a tangentially related question: Why did Andrew Ryan shut down the Little Sister's Orphanages?

Harvesting ADAM directly from Sea Slugs was stated by Tenenbaum to be woefully insufficient. I had assumed during my first playthrough of BioShock that Ryan Industries utilized the girls from the orphanages when the company nationalized Fontaine Futuristics and later resulted to abducting girls when the war really got going, but this info from BAS indicates that this wasn't so.

So I ask why would Ryan terminate a steady source of ADAM producers? Sure it's a good publicity move to further vilify Fontaine, but are we to assume that he closed the doors and didn't give the girls back to their parents? Are we to assume that the Little Wonders Educational Facility acted as a finishing school for girls and then turned them into Little Sisters in clear view of their parents?

Thoughts?