over 4 years ago - Shurenai - Direct link
1: ROTTEN meat is not the same thing as INFECTED meat. Zombies are infected/zombieized, Their meat is not safe in the slightest. The zombified animals give rotten meat because the virus doesn't affect them in quite the same way as it does to humans due to being a mutated strain.

2: Well, Fine...Lets make the crops so that you gain a few hundred seeds for an ear of corn, And also introduce needing to manage soil quality, the need to constantly water them throughout the day, the need to keep them de-weeded, The need to keep the vermin out, the need to keep the pests and insects from it, the need to monitor it for crop rot and other crop killing fungi, the need to replant after every harvest, extend the growth time out to 70-80+ days (The shortest growing crop we have access to is in the ballpark of 70-80~ days growth before harvest) the need to....... Get the point?

Yeah. It's a game, It costs 5 crops to make one seed because that one seed is completely absolutely self sufficiently, produces edible food every 3 days like clockwork and requires no maintenance beyond harvest time and when you accidentally pick up a seed instead of punching the next crop in line. One seed gets you an infinite amount of produce in small sums going forward- You only get more seeds, not less. The high initial investment is to counterbalance the fact that once you have a plant you have it forever.

Frankly, I'll take spending 5 crops per seed over all that i mentioned before in a game like this- It's not a farming sim.