Ingestion of lead shot in game, by humans, has nothing to do with the clearly established consequences of lead pipe contamination, lead in paint, and lead vapor inhalation from leaded gasoline, in children. Believing otherwise is sadly uninformed, and I wouldn't share your opinions with the mothers of your grandchildren.
Of course not Preacher. Most of us understand that a few lead pellets that quickly pass through the digestive tract of a human is not the most bio-available form of lead. The same might be said about water from lead pipes that are heavily calcified.
We also know that lead is toxic to some degree in any amount. But for the vast majority of Americans, and for hunters who consume meat shot with lead ammo, there is extremely little actual long term harm being done, as compared to a wide range of chemicals, drugs, and even foods. Be honest now, if you possibly can. And don't Cherry Pick or twist one thing I said, and evade the rest as you often do. In your medical practice, have you seen more deaths due to lead exposure, or excess consumption of sugar... or fats... or alcohol... or smoking? Would you care to quantify the differences for us? How much irreversible damage or death from lead poisoning have you actually seen
in children?
Have you gone lead free Preacher, or are you still flinging this deadly toxic element all over the place? Are you at all concerned that children and compromised adults might be exposed to the lead you fire while hunting or skeet shooting? You seem somehow invested in repeatedly posting links to how bad lead is. Why would you be a shill for banning lead, and not those other things that apparently are causing much more disease and mortality? Can you say that lead is a bigger problem for us than exposure to the phthalates in the plastics that have become ubiquitous in our lives? How about PFOA's on our frying pans and carpeting, or the BPA in our water bottles and food packaging? Is lead worse than RoundUp or other herbicides? Do more people die from lead exposure, or the giant blood clots and other side effects of Covid19 vaccines? How about commenting on deaths due to lead versus fentanyl overdoses due to Democrat Open Border policies???
Did you know that even with a great reduction in lead exposure in children thanks to getting lead out of paints, gasoline, plumbing, ammunition, and closure of smelters and mines, test scores among U.S. children have actually gone down over the past 30 years? Do you think those dropping test scores are due to lower lead exposure, or is our Public Education System doing more damage to children than lead?
Did you know that Medical Mistakes are one of the leading causes of deaths in the U.S., killing as many as 251,000 people each year? That's way more than lead poisoning and firearms deaths of all kinds. And did you know that less than 10% of these frequently deadly medical errors are reported? Believing otherwise is sadly uninformed, and I wouldn't share your opinions with the mothers of your grandchildren.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/new...erious-harms-from-diagnostic-error-in-ushttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
