Imma go ahead and agree altho maybe people wouldn't mind if there was a post-dated way to make sure there's a food reserve that they "know" how to tap into but that is maybe not preferential for their predominant nutritional/existential needs and appetites.

This way, people have an incentive to "tend to their garden", even if/while depressed, but there's not the worse case scenario where their lack of tending to it results in the mass death of all their new friends

Edit: win/win/win/win (you+player+digital ants+society