Food Decay on Crack?

[TheForestHermit]

Food decay after the server update seems to have been multiplied by the nth factor.
Even preserved foods are decaying in something less than hours. A fraction of the previous time.
I don't know if this is a bug, or by design, but is it possible the powers that be might intervene and reduce the decay modifier server-side?
I'm not usually one for turning down difficulty but this is sort of impossible to keep up with .

*Edit: As a side note food/water consumption seems to be much more ferocious today as well, but it may just seem that way now the food is evaporating.