Quote Originally Posted by origamikitsune View Post
That is due largely in part to the fact that the food buffs are extremely unintuitive and complex and generally worthless (there are exceptions of course that prove the rule), meaning that no one was buying food stuffs meaning no one was making food stuffs meaning no one cared to supply the raw mats because they would just sit there (again, with exceptions that are used solely for grinding).
However it does mean that there's not enough on the market as it is. What is the limit doing really, besides keeping people from doing their crafts. If a Carp/botanist needs to chop trees all of one day for a certain type of wood, then cut all that wood up the next, more power to them.