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[lavions]

Hi, how I can avoid rotting meat? I slaughter animal and before cooker cook all of the meat it gets rotten.

[Werehuman]

  What has helped me is storing it in containers away from vermin that cause it to rot. Usually at the stone level or lower dirt levels, but that's just me. What size of animals are you butchering? A cow, or a few dragons and whales? If it is the latter is understandable that they rot.

[clockwork]

stockpiles will help keep your food from spoiling, especially if they're in barrels, and especially if you have cats to keep the vermin out of your food.

[Lida_Brainbroken]

Hi, how I can avoid rotting meat? I slaughter animal and before cooker cook all of the meat it gets rotten.

Barrels are light, but use your wood.  Stone pots preserve your wood for beds and smelters (until you find magma) and provide excellent food and drink storage, but, they stink when you decide to trade surplus meals because it takes so long to haul them to the depot.
The choice between pots or barrels is your own.  Just be sure to keep a small surplus of them and provide plenty of food/drink storage space near the kitchens, stills and dining halls.

stockpiles will help keep your food from spoiling, especially if they're in barrels, and especially if you have cats to keep the vermin out of your food.

On my present embark, I zoned a pasture over my food stockpiles and assigned a cat to each one.  So far it appears to be working.  I'm attempting to capture some Peregrine Falcons so I can eliminate these cats as soon as they're no longer pets or they die naturally.
irl I love cats, but in DF "DIE DIE DIE!!!"

[Sutremaine]

What has helped me is storing it in containers away from vermin that cause it to rot.

Vermin don't rot raw meat, or if they do it's insignificantly slow. They will eat it, but all that does is remove one from the stack.

Is the meat going to a food stockpile after it's created in the butcher's shop?

[Dunamisdeos]

Sounds like there may some confusion with the cooking skill as well. You don't need to "cook" meat before dwarves can eat it. It comes prepared right off the cow/horse/cat/modded elf.

Just make sure its going straightaway into a barrel or stockpile. It'll keep for ages.

[joeclark77]

The meat rots it if sits around your butcher's shop.  It will be fine if it's stockpiled.  Make sure your "food" stockpile isn't glutted with dimple cups or something.