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[o_O[WTFace]]

I always assumed that dwarves were mostly ethanol powered, just eating meals for vitamins and minerals and such.   

[Cyntrox]

Dwarves are smaller than humans, though. And they absorb nutrients through their beard.

[forsaken1111]

What about my method for feeding the fort? I surround a 5x5 embark area with a 5 deep line of weapon traps all containing 10x serrated green glass disks. When anything wanders over them they, at the very least, get feet/legs chopped off and usually die outright or bleed to death soon after. Then my dwarves run out, grab the body, butcher it and we have meat. Huzzah!

[NW_Kohaku]

Dwarves are smaller than humans, though. And they absorb nutrients through their beard.

Dwarves are 6/7ths the size of humans, which isn't that particularly big a difference.  Besides, medieval peasants probably ate more actual food than modern humans do, at least during the non-Winter months, as they needed a higher calorie diet for all the labor they constantly did. 

Also, dwarves don't absorb nutrients for their beards - female dwarves don't have beards, and that would make female dwarves vitamin-deficient.  The presence or lack of facial hair is the one sign of sexual dimorphism that exists in all of DF for any humanoid, meaning it has, at most, a function in attracting mates, if not for purely decorative purposes.

[forsaken1111]

My female dwarves do have beards though..