If burying blood/carcasses is good for the soil why is putting meat products in compost bad?

Question

When you put bury bodies/carcasses in soil it makes the vegetation grow well, but why do they ask you to not put meat in the compost bin?

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Answer 1

The decomposition process is different underground than in compost.

Underground its anaerobic and driven mostly by bacteria and fungi.

In compost its mostly insects and small invertebrates driving the initial process. Putting meat in compost is usually near the surface, so aside from the smell as it goes rancid, there is also rats and other scavengers that will make a mess to get to it, and a whole different cast of insects that go for meat