3. Golden Eagles and Ferruginous Hawks being two indicator species that feast on piles of lead riddled quarry only to become deathly ill a few days later. The science is settled on Man's cause of these birds demise due to lead isotope analysis proving the lead ingested by raptors is alloyed lead refined for use in bullets and shot. Sloppy hunters will be our own undoing.
Really? You want us to believe that only one specific isotope of lead is used for making shot and bullets? And you want us to believe that this specific lead isotope is used for nothing else and that Man's ammunition is the only environmental source for this lead isotope? This statement is just further proof that junk science is being regurgitated by people with little or no understanding of science, for the sole purpose of advancing an agenda. That agenda is banning guns and hunting.
The simple fact is that any isotope of lead can be alloyed with tin, antimony, or any other metal used to produce lead projectiles and lead isotope analysis cannot in itself differentiate between lead from paint and lead from bullets if both sources used lead from the same mines or same isotope. I also do not believe the oft-repeated statement that a single rice grain sized piece of lead will kill a raptor unless that piece of lead is propelled at about 1100 feet per second and hits said raptor in the head. If this same rice grain sized piece is ingested, virtually 100% of it will be excreted before it can cause poisoning. Lead, as you say, is quite stable, and it will not dissolve in digestive acids quickly enough to do much harm. The lead plates in your car battery are submerged in acid for years without dissolving. I wish people would use their heads before they swallow this crap.
All we need now is for that goofball Ben Deeble to chime in.
