Why is chicken meat considered kosher?

Answer 1

Yes, it is. Please notice that any animal, mast have Shehita, (which is a the correct way to kill an animal according to Judaism) before eating. Chicken is a species of bird which, when properly slaughtered, inspected, and prepared, is a kosher food.

(Are you familiar with one of the timeless stereotypes popularly associated with Jews called "chicken soup" ?)

Answer 2

The list of non-kosher birds is given in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Any bird not on that list is kosher. Unfortunately the list isn't very useful, because it's in the Hebrew of 3300 years ago, and the identity of most birds on the list has been lost over time. Indeed about 1000 years ago one Jewish sect (the Karaites) insisted that דוכיפת, one of the listed birds, is the chicken, and thus chickens are not kosher. However we know that this is not correct, because Jews have been eating chicken continuously since ancient times when all the listed birds could still be identified, so it must not be on the list.

The Talmud gives some objective tests that it asserts cover all the listed birds; if a bird displays none of these traits then it's not listed and is kosher. However some of these tests are quite subtle, and a species must be observed for a long time and in different circumstances to determine whether it exhibits the trait that would determine it not to be kosher. Chickens have been raised and observed by humans for thousands of years, and have never been known to exhibit the proscribed traits, so they can be assumed to be kosher.

The same applies to all birds considered kosher today: there must be a living tradition in some Jewish community that it is kosher, which goes back either all the way to a time when all the non-kosher species could be identified with certainty, or at least long enough to give us confidence that any non-kosher traits would have been observed and reported.

Answer 3

Any chicken that was slaughtered in accordance with the laws of Kashrut

Answer 4

Yes. Poultry can absolutely be kosher. It needs to be slaughtered and prepared properly.

Answer 5

Chicken curry is kosher, as long as the chicken and all other ingredients are kosher. The utensils also need to be uncontaminated.

Answer 6

Chicken meat is kosher only if the chicken was slaughtered according to Jewish law. It's kosher because the Torah lists birds that may not be eaten, and chicken is not on the list.

Answer 7

The packaging needs to have kosher certification, because meat needs to have had kosher slaughtering.