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Fish, wine, and marajuana were all very expensive back in the day. This shabad is about greedy people, specifically greedy Brahmins (as referenced by the "pilgrimages, fasts, and ritials" that a low-caste member couldnt be enjoined in:

Kabeer, those mortals who consume marijuana, fish and wine - no matter what pilgrimages, fasts and rituals they follow, they will all go to hell. ||233||

This shabad is very very incorrectly understood. It doesnt condemn eating meat at all. Compare it to this shabad by Bhagat Farid Ji:

Fareed, my bread is made of wood, and hunger is my appetizer. Those who eat buttered bread, will suffer in terrible pain. ||28||

Does this condemn butter? No, of course not! There is butter in kara prashad. We use ghee lamps on Aarti-Aarta. So no - you wont go to hell.