They PREFER their meat kicking and screaming, but as we saw with the horse, while the meat is fresh it'll keep em occupied at least for a little while.
I am still sortof annoyed with their setup in the initial quarry camp. Dig some ditches. Build a fence. Dangle empty tin cans on strings all around the perimeter. Knock down the bushes. Something. Arrange the tents and vehicles where you have clear lines of sight all around them. Get a fucking DOG or two. They were there long enough to take some precautions so that 50 of the walking dead can't just stroll right into the middle of camp and start noshing on people before you know they're there.
Once that camp got invaded they figured it wasn't safe and tried to take off in search of other survivors I guess, looking for where the military or government might have some remnants hanging on-- but the trouble with that is, it's what nearly everyone else is likely doing, and with things that desperate I'm not sure that the military guys would be particularly welcoming. Hell that goes for ANY other survivors-- I'd treat them as more dangerous than the damn zombies. That's one problem with holing up somewhere nice and established, other folks coming by will want what you've got. Then again, traveling puts you at risk of straying through the territory of other folks well fortified and unfriendly.
You run out of supplies, too, and your local scavenging runs thin, so staying put in one place would be tricky. Particularly if the zombies are competing with you for local game, and potentially tainting the animals or the water supply. This show doesn't seem to have a terribly contagious zombie pathogen, so there's that at least, doesn't seem likely anyone will pick it up from the water. With all the dead bodies around though and no sanitation there's plenty of other diseases to pick up though.
