What the HAL is HALAL meat? Is that meat the imam farted on?
With halal meat the animal is slaughtered essentially the same way kosher is done, only they say a specific Muslim prayer when doing it ("thank you Allah for this food" or some such). It's not surprising since Islam is sort of a warped, regionalized copy of Judaism. Depending on who you talk to a Muslim could eat kosher, but he should say that prayer first to put the final cap on what is the same process.