I share the same healthy skepticism as Lloyd concerning the grossly exaggerated efforts to treat lead as something more toxic and dangerous than plutonium.
This is especially because most of the anti-lead propaganda is coming from anti-gun Democrats and anti-hunting/ anti-fishing PETA type environmentalists. Easily influenced people like brain-damaged DimmyW will never stop for a second to catch their breath and realize that lead has been a part of our environment forever, and has been utilized by man for a very large number of things without causing any catastrophic extinction level events. But I'm waiting for them to report dinosaur bones with elevated lead levels.
That is not to say that lead is not a toxic substance. When used and disposed of improperly, it can cause plumbism (lead poisoning) in both humans and animals. However, lead shot and bullets have been used on a massive scale for several centuries. This means that all of the lead shot that was ever fired over lakes, rivers, estuaries, and wetlands prior to the U.S. lead shot ban is still there. Nobody cleaned it up... period. In fact, many Western Hemisphere countries still allow lead shot for migratory bird hunting, so ducks exposed to lead in Central and South America still migrate to the U.S. and Canada. Lead shot and bullets have been used to take game animals for just as long, and hunters have always lost a certain percentage of game to wounding or neglecting to track down the wounded animal. Yet nobody was getting into a panic or claiming to find eagle nests full of lead sinkers and bullet fragments until recently. And these alarmist documentaries and Panic Papers never mention that eagle and raptor populations are actually increasing... despite getting whacked by windmills and living in nests filled with toxic lead objects.
I have no doubt some fishing line has been utilized by eagles to construct their very large nests. That does not mean that the eagles will be stupid enough to eat any sinkers attached to that line, or to feed a tasteless chunk of lead to their offspring. Only "Sky-is-Falling" people like DimmyW swallow that bullshit. Also, a sinker or shot or bullet fragment found in an eagle's feces is a piece that passed through its' system far too quickly to have caused lead poisoning. And most animals tend to avoid consuming non-food contaminants in their food. The world is filled with pieces of metal of all types as a result of human activity. Isn't it odd that these Raptor researchers aren't reporting finding any other metal scrap or objects in eagle nests other than lead sinkers and bullet fragments??? But asking yourself questions like that involves understanding that there are many people with dishonest agendas. Kind of like the Democrat F.B.I. Agents who planted false evidence at Mara Largo.
Why aren't they also finding rusty nails, wood screws, pieces of steel, copper or aluminum wire? What about beer can pull tabs, keys, staples, or a thousand other metal objects that are not composed of that evil dastardly lead? Why aren't we seeing X-rays of eagles that have eaten these items, or became sick as a result? Why???... because it does not fit the agenda of convincing sponge-brained people like DimmyW that lead ammo and fishing equipment needs to be banned. DimmyW makes the lame excuse that he does not believe everything in his anti-lead show, yet he continues to report the bad, and expresses zero skepticism about the anti-lead claims. But a few more edits, and he'll get something right.
Meanwhile, here in the Midwest, cold temperatures and snow will return in a few days. My big snowblower has gotten a good workout several times so far, and was another good investment. But we are having a brief thaw after 9 days below freezing, before more snowfall happens... just like it has most years since long before DimmyW was born. People like DimmyW with brain damage and defective memories recall a childhood where snow started in late October and never stopped until March or April. Every day was a snow school cancellation day, and there were never any Winter days of cold rain, slush, and mud. As children, their snow men never melted until May. They are too mentally challenged to take a peek at the NOAA Historical Data for their area to see that the overall average temperatures have increased less than a degree in their entire lifetime, and the sky is not falling either. I remain happy that I spent a few extra bucks to put studded snow tires on my daughter's car and my vehicles, because it is the cheapest insurance you can buy. My Nokian studded tires were made at their plant in Dayton, Tennessee, right here in the U.S.A. So no tariffs are involved.
Best of all, DimmyW will respond specifically to my post because he says he uses the IGNORE USER function to IGNORE my Posts. Seriously. As a result, I am locked in this amusing battle of wits with an unarmed man. In that photo above, which has the highest I.Q., (A) the little fish... (B) the lead sinker... or (C) DimmyW?
Hint: It sure ain't (C)
