What birds are clean eating?

Table of Contents:

1. What birds are clean eating?
2. What is chew their cud mean?
3. Do not eat cloven hoofed animals?
4. Can Jews eat chicken?

What birds are clean eating?

The Septuagint versions of the lists are more helpful, as in almost all cases the bird is clearly identifiable:

• aeton—eagle.
• grypa—ossifrage.
• haliaetos—sea eagle.
• gyps—vulture.
• ictinia—kite.
• corax—raven.
• stouthios—ostrich.
• glaux—owl.

What is chew their cud mean?

Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination. The idiomatic expression chewing one's cud means meditating or pondering; similar expressions such as "he chewed that over for a bit", or "chew on that!" likely have the same derivation.

Do not eat cloven hoofed animals?

A: Kosher laws come from the Bible (Leviticus, Chapter 11), where God commands Jews to eat only meat from ruminants (animals that chew their cud) and those which also have cloven hooves (essentially, domesticated animals). Pigs, for example, are not kosher because they have cloven hooves but do not chew their cud.

Can Jews eat chicken?

The only permitted cuts of meat come from the forequarters of kosher ruminant animals. Certain domesticated fowl can be eaten, such as chicken, geese, quail, dove, and turkey. The animal must be slaughtered by a shochet — a person trained and certified to butcher animals according to Jewish laws.