Quick google search and I found this:
The Māori word for placenta, whenua, also means land. The ancient practice of burying the placenta, whenua ki te whenua, "reflects the Māori philosophical view that the placenta, like the land, provides physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual nourishment and furnishes all the needs of humanity," Ngahuia Murphy, a PhD candidate on Māori Philosophy and Cosmology at Waikato University, told Mashable Australia via email.
Quick google search and I found this:
`The Māori word for placenta, whenua, also means land. The ancient practice of burying the placenta, whenua ki te whenua, "reflects the Māori philosophical view that the placenta, like the land, provides physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual nourishment and furnishes all the needs of humanity," Ngahuia Murphy, a PhD candidate on Māori Philosophy and Cosmology at Waikato University, told Mashable Australia via email.`
That works better with dead people, they rot slower. But in some sense trees are carnivores and like some meat.