Translation from the French publication, Novopharm:

The sanitary aspect, the security aspect, in fact, let's remember that in halal slaughter, the animal is turned towards Mecca, bled without being stunned, a very large incision from the throat to the vertebrae sectioning all organs from the jugular and the carotid but also the trachea and the esophagus. This practice brings on anato-physiological consequences, as follows:

1. A regurgitation of the contents of the stomach through the esophagus which is anatomically beside the trachea.

2. The animal continues to breath very hard from the agony that can last a quarter of an hour. Let's remember that it inhales fecal matter, rich in germs of all sorts.

3. This matter that was inhaled all the way to the pulmonary alveoli distributes the germs in the blood much more easily because the membrane there is very thin and the circulation, let's remember, is always working during this period of agony and even accelerated by the stress at the level of essential organs.

4. Enormous risk of contamination in the depth of the meat is consequently there.

5. We observe also from the intense stress, two physiological phenomenon which conjugate the fall of all immune systems. And the concentration f blood in the essential organs, you can say that the animal retains its blood. This is a natural process of survival that brings on also a bleeding that is not as good. This is opposing the allegations of people doing this practice. There is in fact, a greater production of toxins.

6. The agony finally brings on violent convulsions accompanied by defecation and urine, all of it splashing the whole slaughtering area.

You might ask, what does this have to do with me? In much of Europe, halal slaughtered meat is quickly becoming the defacto meat at grocery stores. Without public notice on the packaging, or the public being made aware. In France, halal is 50% of the meat consumed, despite a 'hygiene of the slaughterhouse" rule stipulating that "The trachea and the esophagus must remain intact during the bleeding." Even in North America, stealth halal is being consumed by an unsuspecting public. In fact, it was recently claimed that all Butterball turkeys are now slaughtered Halal. So you may have ate some at Thanksgiving.

In observing religious practice, Muslims consume halal slaughtered meat. But this doesn't mean that the rest of us want to eat it, especially given the above information. It's not much to ask that halal be clearly marked, so the consumer can decide.

(Extreme warning: the video is harsh. The opening scene is the modern method, followed by contemporary halal slaughter)