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

You should cook both to the same temperature to be safe (165F). Most people still get grossed out at chicken at that temp though as it feels “under cooked” to those of us raised on it being cooked till it was dry