Eliza, you're wasting a resource and contributing more than you need to the landfill. Meat, droppings, it all breaks down in the compost - you're missing perfectly good compost materials if you eschew poop.

I have three compost piles in my back yard. The one I'm working on building this year (it gets turned and watered every so often), the one from last year that is still sitting there decaying (possibly turned a time or two, but it doesn't need it), and the three year old one - that I'm digging up to put in my gardens. It's dark brown/black, rich, earthy and smells like dirt. The only recognizable things in it are peach pits if I forgot and threw them in the kitchen waste (I usually trash those because they can make the dogs sick if they dig them out of the compost). That's all. Perfectly healthy despite having dog droppings mixed in with table scraps (to keep the dogs out of the compost and the table scraps).

Seriously - that "no poop or meat" - it's an old wives tale.

SRS