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Kameron Waters@kameronwaters · Sep 17, 2026

This is happening right now in New York. Thousands of people transferring their sins into live chickens. Then the…

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A documentary filmmaker is investigating the Kapparot ritual in New York, where participants transfer their sins to live chickens that are then slaughtered and sold in stores, raising questions about the religious practice's origins and the ethics of animal slaughter.

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  1. #1

    This is happening right now in New York. Thousands of people transferring their sins into live chickens. Then the chickens are slaughtered and sent to the same stores as any other chicken. Someone is eating a bird a stranger used as a vessel for their guilt. 🧵 (film link in thread)

  2. #2

    I spent years investigating the connection between religion and animal slaughter for a documentary that was almost censored by Netflix before it came out. It's called @christspiracy, and everything in this video traces right back to it. Watch FREE it here: watch.wwjdfilm.com/KapparotPart1X

  3. #3

    The ritual is called Kapparot. It happens every year in the days before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. A live chicken is swung overhead while a prayer is recited. The person's sins are believed to transfer into the bird. Then it's killed. All of it out in the open. On sidewalks.

  4. #4

    Here's what most people don't know. Kapparot isn't in the Hebrew Bible. Anywhere. The prophets actually said the opposite. "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." (Hosea 6:6) So where did this come from? That's one of the questions I'm out here asking.

  5. #5

    Meanwhile, activists are pulling dying birds out of crates stacked on the street. Dehydrated, crushed, dead. Their argument stopped me: this is no different than what happens inside every chicken farm in America. The only difference is you can see it.

  6. #6

    These birds go to the same stores as any other chicken. So even if you're not religious and you eat chicken... this is what you're eating. And if we're paying someone else to kill on our behalf, whether on a sidewalk or behind slaughterhouse walls... what exactly are we feeding?

  7. #7

    I'm spending all week at Kapparot documenting everything leading up to the Day of Atonement on Saturday. Big things coming that I can't reveal yet. This is Part 1. Follow along. 🐓