Leon thought for a moment before answering James.
"Don't worry about the farmland and poultry situation," he said. "If people don't want to do that work, let them not do it. If soup is what they want, let them have it — unlimited, no rationing. If someone enjoys farming as a hobby, let them keep at it. It doesn't need to be a requirement anymore."
He'd already purchased the seed cultivator item from the cosmic shop, the one that compressed months of crop growth into weeks, enhancing the soil. Infrastructure was the actual priority right now with the population growing this fast — if the spoon could handle hunger reliably on its own, that was genuinely good news. The only reason he'd originally pushed for farms and other food sources in the first place was the fear that eating the same single soup every day for months or years, however delicious, would eventually become its own quiet form of torture.
But now there were five options.
