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Not my first post on the subject, it's probably about the same thing from a previous post.
(Previous issue was corrected, where an observation post on top of a civilization that would self annihilate by nuking would have the post remain and now consume food.)

I have ship food consumption, yet no ship consuming food, no station consuming food, no observation post consuming food, no administrator consuming food, no planet consuming food...

Still... I am consuming food. And still, a civilization that needs no food.

It is probably some mining/science station consuming food and somehow being registered as ship, but, lets face it, I am not going to click 500 stations to check which one it is, if it's even that!

I'd like to point out, that even if your entire civilization consumes no food, and for some reason you go negative, you still get the whole dismantling of your empire. But... Still don't consume food. I reported this a few DLC ago and still is present to this day. Your machine empire that care not about food will crumble into ruins because of a -1 food.

In this same play-through I did find a observation post consuming food, sending me into negative, again.
This needs to be fix, I do not know how, not a Stellaris dev :D
But I have been having this issue for years now where I'd get ghost food consumption that I cannot locate the source, and often, requires a new game to be started as it cannot be resolved and food cannot be acquire to 'patch' the issue.

Ha to drop multiplayer games, telling the other folk game was 'corrupted' and couldn't proceed for my part. *sobs*
 

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If you really want people to come with qualified guesses, upload a save for people to look at, rather than a finely chopped screenshot that most certainly doesn't show anything useful (if it did, you really ought to have been able to figure it out yourself)

Do you have a vassal that you subsidise basic resources?
Have you recently subjucated a vassal that uses bioships?
Got Lost Amoeba? (... not actually sure this specific entity use food, but it's possible that it started using food with 3.14)
 
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If ships are using food, that implies that you have some fauna, Bubbles, a reanimated leviathan, a baby elder drake/sky dragon/L-Drake, etc. somewhere in your empire.

But like Sian said.... "Here's a tiny screenshot with no other information other than the problem existing, how could this be happening?!?!?!?" is not giving us much to work with.
 
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