Note that the Qur'ân does not simply say to eat halal meat: it says to eat what is good and wholesome (tayyib), and what is halal. Therefore, if any food is not tayyib, the Qur'ân does not encourage us to eat it. Considering the diseases linked with meat eating (hardening of the arteries, which causes circulatory failure and stroke, in addition to other ills; gout; E. coli infection; and Mad Cow Disease), the hormones artificially put into animals, the filthy conditions of feedlots and slaughterhouses, and the danger of meat going bad, I can only conclude that meat does not pass the test of being tayyib.
I might not be the right person to comment on this and would rather want to know whether Muslims have the prerogative to do things according to their discretions and conscience.
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But you have the Raya Qurban - of handing over/donating meat to the poor. A symbolic gesture of offerings following the Nabi's sacrifice. Didn't you know about that?
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