Can we add an "indifferent" option. That's the one I'd pick because if I'm, well, indifferent about it, lol. I do hope they improve the benefits of eating food though. Perhaps they could take the Fallout4 format and then back it off a tad.
Not as standard. I'm not even fond of having a built in Survival or hardcoe mode. Better to encourage certain activities with bonuses than to force particular play styles on people.
I agree with Lach and the CheshireKhajiit. I'd rather see some incentives for eating by increasing the long term benefits of eating rather than imposing a penalty system. I even created a mod for Skyrim that does exactly this called Immersive Ingestibles.