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That's a slight disadvantage, but not too bad. It's not like half a century of alcoholism can be wiped out by a month of sobriety, anyway.

One full grown pig, butchered is supposed to feed 100 humans.  Couldn't it be said that one pig could feed more dwarfs, because of their smallness?  1 pig feeds maybe 200 dwarfs, on a full meal plan, and 400 on a starving emergency plan.  This comment brought to you by the 'DF needs Drunken Weenies society'. 

Feed 100 humans for how long?

QbertEnhanced, when those alterations to time go into place, don't forget Animal Trap bait spoiling.  Heck don't forget spoiling in and of itself.  Right now I believe, meat rots too fast.  It'll rot really fast when time is changed, I imagine.  If the average cave temperature is 20-40 degrees F, how's food rotting so fast, I wanna know? 

What, over weeks or months or longer if properly protected? Given the lack of salting or smoking the meat as of yet, that might be too long. Unless we're currently abstracting that out, in which case it's still OK.

Blood from ALCOHOL_DEPENDANT creatures could simply satisfy the thirst of ALCOHOL_DEPENDANT vampires. That solves all issues. Pretty much.

An [AGE_DEPENDANT:X:Y] tag would be awesome. Currently it takes way too much work if you wanted to do something like this.

Holdon, what? You can kinda do this?

If it's playable.

I think he wants something that simply refuses to die. Not something whose butchered bits decide to wriggle every once in a great beating Wyrm.

Only a few butchered bits reanimate--bones and skin, mostly, and the latter can be stopped by simply tanning it.
Or:

So make a creature called Zombie make it so it has the token [NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT] and [OPPOSED_TO_LIFE] make it stronger and slower. It would take like 5 minuts.

This. Copy-Paste humans and do this. Replace NO_THOUGHT_CENTER_FOR_MOVEMENT with NOBLOOD, NOPAIN, NOBREATHE, and so forth if you want the typical zombie-killing method to work.

Alright, but what PRACTICAL difference is there between the two? Unless virus zombies go down to more than headshots (they sometimes do; there's about as much agreement about what zombies do as there is for, say, trolls.
And if you don't want refuse to attack your populace, dispose of it! Use magma, that burns reanimatable rubbish. See if you can find a flat volcano in an evil area.

I think the best way to handle this is to have predatory animals actually attack things. Also, increase the amount of wildlife on the map to ~0.15 groups per embark tile at a time. That means that minimum-sized 2X2 embarks would have a group a bit over half the time, 3X3 about one at a time (with two around a third of the time), and 4X4 would have two or three groups of animals at once. Then, wild wolves and such would have deer and the like to hunt. Maybe it's a bit denser than IRL, but it's worth it so our livestock and dwarves aren't the only things on the menu. Anyways, having a constant number of wildlife regardless of embark size is unrealistic in and of itself. (Perhaps cavern layers would be a bit less dense, say 0.1/tile for cavern layers 1 and 2, and 0.05 for layer 3 and the magma sea? This would also add realism, as cavern environments really can't sustain the kind of ecosystem a surface one would.)