Originally Posted By: BrentD
Larry, as I am sure you know, ingesting metallic lead from time to time is not particularly bad for most mammals. Lead oxides are another thing of course.

Lead in humans in ND was a factual observation. That it comes from game seems quite unlikely. Pretty much end of story for us. Not that it was part of the story in the first place. It is simply a source for information about the distribution of lead in game animals. And that is a bit more to the point, no?

Now, since I know you, I also know that you are bright enough to have all of this figured out. So, other than figuratively kicking an ant nest to see what pours out, what's your point?



The point, Brent--unless I'm missing yours, and you seem to be wandering all over the place--is that those who are trying to ban lead shot, lead bullets etc, will use ANY excuse (based on "good science" or not) to promote their agenda. Lead poisoning is a fact in humans; it's a fact that it will kill birds. The question is, what danger is posed by the lead we shoot, transferred to us by the game we eat, or to birds by the lead they ingest from feasting on unrecovered game shot with lead. Those are the questions to which we need to respond, based on the facts in evidence, when dealing with the specious reasoning presented by the nontoxic shot proponents.