Original sentence: Also, the animal should be facing the Qibla at the time of slaughter.Several other conditions are also stated: the knife's blade should be extremely sharp yet not be sharpened in front of the animal, and the animal must not be slaughtered in front of other animals
Edited sentence: A study has shown that by this method, the animal actually suffers less pain that if it were to be killed by stunning.Apart from the functional reason of eating healthier meat by draining blood out of it, direct slaughter, like everything else pertaining to Muslim life also has a more spiritual dimension to it.Every code of conduct or law in Islam including hunting methods, killing animals for food, and what is deemed permissible to be eaten has a deeper significance, such that it would benefit Muslims.Here are some of the codes of conduct that are supposed to be practiced, though the significance of each has not been stated and more readings could be provided on it.Is Islamic Slaughtering Cruel to Animals.Several conditions are also required beyond the utterance of prayer and the slaughter method before meat is considered consumable by Muslims.Slaughtering and Hunting of Animals.The person doing the slaughtering would have to recite a prayer stating with at least the word "Allah" while having the intention of slaughtering the animal with minimal pain.These include humane methods that respect the animal such as not slaughtering one of its kind in front of other animals, as well as using extremely sharp iron blades that would make the killing as swift and painless as possible for the animal.This method has been classed as inhumane by government-funded animal welfare authorities in the UK who have found that it  Cattle require up to two minutes to bleed to death when such means are employed and in the words of the Chairperson of the Farm Animal Welfare Council:"This is a major incision into the animal and to say that it doesn't suffer is quite ridiculous