Reply To: Kapparos

jewishfem- who says it’s acceptable? I mean the food is still kosher and we can eat it, but the person who is treating the animal that way is violating an aveira. And truth be told, if there was a slaughterhouse that didn’t violate tzaar baalei chayim, it would probably be better to use their chickens so we don’t give incentive to people to continue sinning.

Are we allowed to do kapparos with chickens who are mistreated? Sure. We’re not the ones doing the aveira. Just like eating chickens who were mistreated. But kaparos is different than eating chickens because we are doing it specifically to get zechus from shamayim. Doing these kapparos via a sin doesn’t seem like it would do the job. And, like I said before, especially since there is a perfectly acceptable way to do kapparos (even lechatchilah according to many) that avoids this issue, why wouldn’t you use it?