My freelancer has gone into Crete many a time with loads of food, and while I've never been shot at, I've had good RP with the people there about bringing in food and such. While I'm in system, I've seen some atrocious (as in non-existant) rp from others in system, too. Minor detail - unless something has changed, the Council edict on people bringing food in should still be valid.
It's been interesting because I've gone in with my Junker IFF'd / AI ID'd Hauler and had people going what? (That unit brings in bio-unit resources (food) and leaves with defective alpha-code memory modules (artifacts)).
And just a comment (again) to the Ghost guys and anyone else that doesn't know - Harvester 24 is a ROGUE Harvester. It's posted in the special RP section. It's listed in other places. Harvesters are either neutral or allied with Corsairs. Don't shoot the machines - we're not using up your resources...