A situation you may encounter all too often:
For some reason (for example an attack) your stockpile of cooked meals is depleted, and your cook is busy preparing new ones.
for some reason however your colonists don´t want to wait but rather want to eat (or feed) right now, despite the fact that their hunger bar (or that of the prisoners) still is at 30 or 40 % and, one after the other, begin to take away your precious resources of raw meat or vegetables, forcing you to put them into military duty just so they don´t carry away (and consume) those supply, which are meant to get turned into meals.
Over short or long, all of your colonists are standing at attention, while the cook is the only person not on military duty and trying desperately to cook meals to satisfy the colonists, so that you can put them off from military duty again.
It would be great if you could either order your colonists to only eat cooked meals (and consume any raw food only in case they are about to starve, say at hunger bar = 10%), or if you could reserve stockpiles for manufacturing / kitchen use only, so that any raw food (or raw materials) therein only is allowed to be used for cooking in the kitchen (or manufacturing in a workshop) and not for consumption by colonists