Recalls Tsai: "After everyone else in our village stopped farming, the birds would eat up all our rice in the fields before we could harvest it, and the new neighbors complained about the stench of the pig manure we used as fertilizer. The Environmental Protection Bureau even fined us for using organic fertilizer in our vegetable plot!"
「當整個村莊都不再種田時，我們一家種植的稻米很快地就被麻雀吃光，而傳統豬屎當肥料的臭味招來新鄰居們的抗議，甚至在自家菜園施放有機肥，還會被環保局開罰單！」蔡聰明回憶。