User blog comment:Unownshipper/Flora and Fauna of Rapture/@comment-6024608-20131018060447

Many of the things you mentioin as being NOT in Rapture may have been, just were much more expensive or less variety was available (and seasonal). People smuggle cigarettes in the real world just to bypass taxes.

Rapture would have to have huge farms/orchards to provide the food and other things required (cant really eat just fish) and  animals like cows can eat many of the products. Grass is not that hard to grow in hydroponics and other silage from byproduct (like corn stalks) are fed to cows and other livestock.

Ryan could have had his world organization search out varieties of all kinds of things which could be grown in Rapture.

Testxyz (talk) 06:04, October 18, 2013 (UTC)