Jerky is made from meat, so, yes it is meat!
No, turkey jerky is made from turkey meat.
Yes the word jerky can be a noun. It is a piece of meat.
Jerky can be made from any type of meat. I've eaten turkey jerky, deer jerky, pork jerky, beef jerky, buffalo jerky and a couple of others. Jerky is basically just dried meat. Many people make their own by laying the strips of meat on a cookie sheet, basting it with teriyaki and drying it at a low temp in the oven. It can also be dried in the sun if there is a way to keep critters off of it. Just look up jerky recipes in your favorite search engine.
Jerky Cure is something you use to season and prepare meat for drying to make jerky.
If there's white in your jerky, it could possibly be fat in the meat.
Dried Meat
Jerky can be made out of any type of meat, but the packaging has to tell you what type of meat the jerky is made out of. In the USA jerky is not made from horses due to American horses being unsafe for human consumption. However in some European and Asian countries you probably could find horse meat jerky for sale in deli's, butcher shops, and at specialty stores.
Go here, most of the recipes are dehydrator. http://beefjerkyrecipes.com/jerky/meat-type/venison-jerky-recipes/
When making beef jerky 350 degrees would be too high of a temperature. generally, around 265 degrees is the best temperature to make jerky. 350 would cook rather than dry the meat, and jerky is a dehydrated meat.
Jerky
Yes, beef jerky is considered processed meat because it undergoes various methods of preservation and flavoring before being consumed.
Beef jerky!