The meat in your freezer from the deer you shot last fall may be contaminated...Wait a minute...your headline says "Study Shows," not "Study May Show"...
A study released today by the Peregrine Fund and Washington State University shows that people who consume venison from game animals killed with lead bullets risk ingestion of the poisonous metal.No agenda or anti-hunting (by humans) bias there, I'm sure, and who can argue that if you're eating something killed with a lead projectile that the risk will be zero?
"[P]rocessed ground venison from 80 percent of the deer sampled in the research contained metal fragments..."And the reason you specifically did not say "lead fragments" is...?
Previous studies have found lead residues in birds of prey and scavengers including California Condors...Yeah. But they haven't documented that it's caused by ammunition ingestion.
We've talked the lead issue before, including the Leonardo DiCaprio connection, as well as the foolishness of taking food out of the mouths of poor people by derailing (and intentionally destroying public confidence in)"Hunters for the Hungry" programs.
I'll have more to say on this, but later. It's the topic of my latest GUNS Magazine column, submitted two weeks ago and on the stands in a few months. In the mean time, those of you who have consumed meat from game animals: What are you doing walking around? Don't you know you're deathly ill?
[Via AvgJoe]