I TRAVELLED to a Costco warehouse yesterday and was perusing the frozen aisles, lamenting the use of various processing agents listed on the various packages. Suddenly, I came accross a giant package containing many month's supply of organic frozen chicken breasts. On the label the word "Kosher" popped out at me, probably because as a Muslim I try to eat only Kosher/Halal products and have been programmed to sniff out these two words on food labels since early childhood. Well, on closer inspection of the product label, it appears the chicken breasts were not Kosher at all. The word Kosher was prominently displayed on the packaging but it referred to Kosher salt as well as one or two other agents being added to the chicken breasts during processing.

My questions, which expose my ignorance are:

1) Do any Jewish schools of thought consider non-Kosher chicken to which Kosher salt has been later added to be a Kosher product?

2) Would some Jews who normally keep Kosher consider the addition of Kosher salt to a non-Kosher product to be acceptable from a religious standpoint in some situations (like TRAVEL)?

3) Do you consider this false advertising? I can see someone picking up the package because they think it contains Kosher chicken, going home, preparing it and later being upset when they discover the meat was not really Kosher.