Whats Halal Meat?

A person I know asked us the difference between halal meat and other meat. To make a long story short we told him that the wisdom behind halal meat is that intentions are important in Islam and that as God created the animal, we could only kill the animal if it was done in the name of God (i.e. by saying Bismilah). If we dont kill the animal in the name of God then we really have no right to take the animal's life. We mentioned there were other details to halal meat as well (in terms of how you do it,etc.) but this was probably the overarching wisdom in being commanded to eat halal meat.

Allah sent us this explanation and it seemed to have worked well (better then anything we have said to anyone else before about halal meat) and so we decided to share it.