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[DreamerGhost]

Is there any way to force dwarves to haul items to their stockpiles? I have tried placing stockpiles three steps away and having 40 idle dwarves, but still meat keeps rotting in my butcher shop.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

1) Does it never get hauled or only sometimes?
If never: check things are set up correctly.
2) Find a useless dwarf and unset all labours other than food hauling.

[Immortal-D]

If the raw meat is in your Butcher- Are you sure you have 'Prepare Meal' enabled on a kitchen somewhere?  If yes, then check that you have adequate supply of containers.  Order 10 'rock pots' and/or 'wood barrels', see if that helps.

[Thisfox]

Nope. You could lock a dwarf in that room with every other ability turned off. My method is to deconstruct the butchers shop (and the fishery) every year or so. This leads to a huge pile of meat on the floor that gets picked up relatively soon. Also, I put the Butchers Shop in a seperate room to the main food area (thus just forbid the door when someone's inside) with a miasma-lock. Gotta keep the purple contained.
Another method is to have an out-of-doors butchers shop I guess.

Spoiler: Pics of what I mean (click to show/hide)

Above, the kitchens and the fishworks room. Below, the whole feasting hall and food areas, complete with the refuse rooms at the top with the butcher directly below them.