So is that a bug? I literally have the lizard guys starving to death because they won't eat anything. I got the light-sided humans-elves staying alive by only healing each other. I'm not sure what is going on.

It is a strange glitch that only happens with the races that can be recruited. For some reason, anytime they use stamina or any action that would cause food to be drained, it is drained at a massive rate that completely drains it regardless of how much the value is. We have no idea what causes the glitch, nor how to fix it. However, there are some things that seem to fix it on their own. Simply putting them in a cryopod, or uploading and then downloading them fixes it. Restarting the server so just threw an update, or exiting and reentering your single-player will also fix it.

Thank you for the assistance! I can regain my sanity again, haha!

At first I didn't know what was literally eating tens of thousands of berries (luckily it was berries and not meat) and then I did some dino searching and found out it was the light-leaned NPCs. Everything works as you said and I can keep my sanity. Thank you again for the support and your dedication to the mod. My server peeps and I can continue on kicking some ass!