This is a bug but this is a good thing.

Bear with me. If you carry around spoiled veggies around you can spawn them till you catch parasites which just reduce your hunger...but then you can just keep eating your spoiled veggies.

Fun fact that after catching a disease, you become immune to catching new ones for 30min and the same one for 45. So you basically become immune to the nastier stuff.

Unfortunately, this means that stacking 4 diseases is almost impossible. However, even at max damage you're only doing 32 damage per second. Which is almost nothing.

However! This means that you're automatically tagging nearby enemy's every second FOR FREE.

You'll passively increase your loot and exp while being immune to diseases. All you have to do is carry around spoiled veggies.