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[Cespinarve]

I am in the middle of a very boring film shoot, and so I habe DF running. Tired of miasma, I am finally moving my butcher shops and kitchen outside. I ordered the old ones destroyed, and was then called back for dolly work. On return:

 CATFATSLOSION! Animal fat and tallow have filled the entire room AND out the door. It is gross. I did not realize the game could do this.

My dining room is going to STINK very quickly,

[UndergroundTree]

Fat stockpile! and quickly! Then turn it into soap or render into food!

[Cespinarve]

NO ONE EVER seems to hall fat or tallow. Damndest thing. THat room is sitting over a fat stockpile.

No one ever touches it. I have people solely devoted to food stockpiling. No dice.

[UndergroundTree]

Get your kitchens set to render it like crazy?

Designate the room a food stockpile so it doesn't rot?

[snaggles]

Did the fat somehow get marked forbidden?

[Aspgren]

There is a massive grease leak in section 9 captain! The entire kitchen is lost and it is leaking into the dining room!

[Argonnek]

Fat overload! Dwarves falling left and right in a horribly comical fashion!

[Killas[SiN]]

My god, you've struck gold!

Honestly though, that is awesome.
Free food!

Or you can finally make that House of Soap!

[KenboCalrissian]

Your fortress seems to be suffering from some blockage caused by high cholesterol!

[Quietust]

Fat should get stored in food stockpiles - perhaps you don't have any that allow it. I typically render all of my fat (mostly cow and black/grizzly bear) and then cook it into tallow roasts.

Also, for some strange reason, fat doesn't actually go rancid - in a test fortress I made, I left a bunch of fat sitting in an outdoor garbage dump for over 2 seasons and it never went bad.

[Blaze]

Perhaps fat doesn't rot since it isn't considered edible until rendered? I've seen tallow and tallow roasts go bad.

I think fat can only be stored with other fat, they won't get mixed with barrels of other food types. It also looks like your food stockpile has no empty spots.

Perhaps your food stockpile doesn't accept fat? Is your fat stockpile a custom stockpile? I've heard that custom stockpiles have problems at times.

[Huin]

Quick! Open a chip shop!

[RebelZhouYuWu]

Quickly, use the fat to power your forges!

[HammerHand]

... I hope you have a lot of barrels.  o.o;  Although since all your other nearby food stockpiles are filled to the brim with barrels, I assume that you do.

[martinuzz]

Now that's a big FAT boom.

If you make the space underneath the fat / tallow a food stockpile, set to accept both, there will be no need for immediate moving. Then you can designate stockpiles for fat / tallow in desired locations, and set them to take from the combined stockpile. You will have to do this with one of the two first (preferably the fat, since I think that rots even when in a food stockpile), because it is not possible to have 2 stockpiles take from the same stockpile.
I'm not sure about tallow rotting. I always have it stored in barrels, and use it up to cook / make soap rather quickly most of the time. Never seen it rot, except when left in the butcher's shop for too long before being hauled.
I've never seen prepared foods rot, except when left in the kitchen too long. I do not store prepared foods in barrels either, and dwarves do path over it.
Maybe it has to do with my cats, who are quite effective at killing vermin that spawns in my fort.

For the fat / tallow items scattered in your dining room.. If your dwarves are not hauling it, consider using the (o)ptions menu to turn off all hauling except refuse hauling, and order the items in your dining room to be dumped. Dumping items seems to have a rather high priority. In any case, higher than fat / tallow hauling. This, ofcourse, does need an active garbage dump to a place where miasma is no problem / atom smasher.

On a quite unrelated matter: I can see, on your screenshot, that quite a few of your rooms have only a 1x1 entrance (single door). If your FPS starts dropping too dramatically, widening those could give significant improvement.