But you see, 7araam is very relative. Music is 7araam, if we wanna talk about that. Not wearing the 7ejab is 7aram; we can’t pick and choose our 7alal and 7aram. If we want to bring 7alal and 7araam into the subject, we shouldn’t be talking about Lady Gaga’s dress, but about the fact that she sings and doesn’t cover her hair.
(For argument’s sake, let’s jokingly assume that this animal wasn’t slain the 7alal way — the cow died of a disease. Its meat is not 7alaal to eat. )
However, I still ask of you to look at it from a more stripped-down perspective: slaying animals for the purpose of eating them is equivalent to doing so for the purpose of wearing them. In both cases the animals are being consumed. The fact that we’re shocked over her wearing meat, therefore, needs a bit of examination.