Dear David Johnson. Thanks for the above, otherwise I would not have got the opportunity to inform you the truth. The truth is that if you cut the throad of any living being in a single stroke, the nervous system gets cut into two causing cardiac arrest which causes maximum pain to the animal or any living being. Whereas, we muslims cut only wind pipe of the anumal which do not cause cardiac arrest and hence it is less painful. The second thing I would like to clarify is that, when you cut the wind pipe, the animal flexes its muscles due to which entire blood comes out of the body. When one eats meat which do not contain blood, it will be more hygenic, because blood is the quickest medium for bacterial infection. You verfy this scientific reason.