Fishing bait

[Greed^]

Food is one of the few products that will always have demand so is definitely the best place to start. I'd propose revamping the system (i.e getting rid of buying food from the market) and instead implementing a sort of production line utilising ingredients. A basic system being fishing and farming produces the raw materials > chefs who use these materials alongside specialist equipment (say ovens/kitchen prop) to create meals. To really get interaction though food would have to be perishable or else we get what we have now where people just bulk buy the most effective food and forget about it. This is where food rotting could come in and maybe have a scaling system where the meals/food that take the most time and effort to produce are the most effective (and perishable) whereas easy to make food but long lasting is less effective at sating your hunger.

Just some rough ideas, hopefully this could provide an incentive to being a fisherman/chef outside of whoring for points and would ideally be able to rival contrafarming as a means of income.

This. Make the chef job exciting, something else than just spawning 5 chinese and get $250 profit, food that has to be cooked, perhaps food that can burn too, so it's not just the usual semi-afkable process?