I made a few changes such that when there's more lazer present, your hunger(now called health) drops slower. I also made food a bit more rewarding and more frequent.
As a direct adjustment to these changes, lazers are more punishing now because I don't want the players to tank the lazer hit by eating a few pieces of food - this should become more obvious after you reach the later games, but shouldn't affect you as much in the early games.
Please help me test with the testing build - it should be in the download section as well.