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I discussed this with a friend of mine.. meat is mostly to be avioded but the tradition maintained for difficult times... ie war draught ...ice age ..etc.
The idea of sacrifice is fobidden but thanks must be made to animal and it must be slaughter in one clean blow.
In an ideal situation hunting of wild animal is preferred to slaughtering of farm animals.
This is available in UK.. but very rare now as even in largely sikh areas market forces have undercut them.
wildwest
There are halal slaughter houses that operate to higher standards of "welfare", than non-halal - particularly if they stun before slaughter - but I would argue that they are in a minority.
There was a time when a lot of meat served in schools and elsewhere in the public sector was halal, just to "be on the safe side". There was little transparency or informed choice, yet Sikhism - as I understand it - prohibits the consumption of Kutha meat, meat from ritual slaughter.