1) Chicken as food 
Kapparot (כפרות, Ashkenazi pronunciation, Kapporois, Kappores) is a Jewish ritual practiced by some Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur. The person swings a live chicken or a bundle of coins over one`s head three times, symbolically transferring one`s sins to the chicken or coins. The chicken is then slaughtered and donated to the poor for consum.....