Question about the dark year

[u/cryptic-weirdo]

So I've watched the show a few times and idk if I just didn't pick up on it or they just didn't disclose this. Were they only cannibals for a year? Why only one year? What changed to make them stop being cannibals or did they just continue eating the people from the fighting pits? Was there a negative consequence to the cannibalism like others going insane besides Octavia clearly going mad?

[u/ReganX]

Yes, it was one year. Their protein crop was infected by a blight and it would take a year to regrow plants from healthy seeds.