The question of whether moose is kosher came up again recently and again I forgot to look into it.

Yesterday I was at the gym and I happened to be listening to the audiobook recording of Tony Horwitz’s A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America. In the book, Horwitz recounts a trip into Canada and a long drive through a rather barren area with only the Canadian Broadcast Service’s English language broadcast of a Radio Sweden show to keep him company. The host of the program asks a Swedish Jew is moose is kosher and he replies that he doesn’t know, but “that most Jews will eat moose if they feel like it.” That’s not a particularly helpful answer.

My father-in-law likes making moose stew. Again, not really evidence. (Especially since he also loves to make Christmas ham).

I did some reading. Moose is kosher. There were other references, I picked that one at random because the whole page was interesting.

That said, just because a moose meets the criteria for being kosher - being a ruminant with split hoovers - doesn’t mean it is. Shooting a moose in the woods isn’t a proper form of slaughter under Jewish Law. You’ll have to get close enough to the live moose to cut it’s throat in one stroke and then drain all of it’s blood out. Good luck with that. Let us know how it goes.

Contrary to a recent Colbert Report story, Giraffes have apparently been considered kosher for a while. Keep sending those suggestions, links and ideas - we’re slow these days, but we really are reading them and following up!