Talk:Mount Weather/@comment-138.237.112.209-20150129145640/@comment-25869525-20150204014230

I think that's one of the things the makers of the show want us to overlook. President Wallace mentioning the hydrponics, I guess, was their way to cover that. As far as animals, I don't recall ever getting a good look at what they eat inside the mountain, so they may not have tasted meat in 97 years, instead getting any protien from tofu and beans.

Chocolate seems like it should be a luxury for them. Maybe it is, and to "honor" the 47 and try to welcome them (lull them into a false sense of security), they dipped into their stash and dug up enough chocolate to make a few cakes. I admit I know very little about how chocolate is made, beyond it is made from the beans of a plant that grows in Central America. So, some part of the Mt Weather hydrponics lab must have a setup for tropical plants. I imagine it hasd to be a pretty big area, since it needs to grow enough to feed 400 or so people every day.

But now that I think of it, the big implausibility is that the light bulbs are still working after 97 years.