Strider I agree with you 90%, but part of me wishes people had a bit more flexibility to invest in GT or MC without too horribly disrupting their normal operations. I think the small reduction in peasant food spend was a good tweak, army still consumes the vast majority of food, especially when troops are out.
I think if we start seeing millions of food in the market at 1-2gp then we'll know we went overboard. We might not keep this food tech in the next round depending on how things go (as of right now it's just a temp tech).