Why can we eat duck meat medium rare, treating it like red meat, but chicken, which is white meat, has to be fully cooked, even though both are types of birds?

Question

Why can we eat duck meat medium rare, treating it like red meat, but chicken, which is white meat, has to be fully cooked, even though both are types of birds?

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Answer 1

It has more to do with how they are raised than the species itself, the problem with chicken is that the farms are overcrowded and not very clean so there’s a high chance of bacteria being in the chickens