If I've ever had it, it was unknowingly in a shawarma or something. I can't imagine chanting Allahu Akbar during the slaughter makes a great deal of difference in the taste. Like the idea of the animals being killed more humanely otherwise though, as I believe is part of it.

A lot of the reason pork is forbidden in that part of the world actually dates way back to the days before refrigeration was possible, the meat would spoil very quickly in desert heat and was susceptible to all kinds of viruses that would make people sick etc.