What is Halal Meat?

Islam has laws regarding which foods can and cannot be eaten
and also on the proper method of slaughtering an animal for
consumption, known as dhabihah (zabihah)

Thabiha or Dhabiha (Arabic: ذبيحة‎), is the prescribed method of
ritual slaughter of all animals excluding fish and most sea-life
per Islamic law. It is an Islamic method of slaughtering animals.

The Islamic mode of slaughtering an animal requires the
following conditions to be met:

1. Animal should be slaughtered with sharp knife:
The animal has to be slaughtered with a sharp object (knife)
and in a fast way so that the pain of slaughter is minimized.

2. Cut wind pipe, throat and vessels of neck:
Zabiha is an Arabic word which means ‘slaughtered’. The
‘slaughtering’ is to be done by cutting the throat, windpipe and
the blood vessels in the neck causing the animal’s death
without cutting the spinal cord.

3. Blood should be drained:
The blood has to be drained completely before the head is
removed. The purpose is to drain out most of the blood, which
would serve as a good culture medium for microorganisms.
The spinal cord must not be cut because the nerve fibers to the
heart could be damaged during the process causing cardiac
arrest, stagnating the blood in the blood vessels.