This is Lead Week on this blog. OK – so these are the data. Remember, all the shot were removed from these samples, by a combination of searching by hand and eye and then X-raying the samples. These lead levels refer to the lead left in the meat after the lead shot is removed –…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
Lead Week, 9 #Pbweekmia
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This is Lead Week on this blog. Lead is of course poisonous to wildlife too. It is estimated that around 73,000 ducks die in the UK each winter of lead poisoning – they ingest particles of spent lead ammunition in mistake for food or grit. Around 400 ducks will have died from lead poisoning in…
Lead Week, 8 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. This is a blank graph – but tomorrow, at 6am, you will see it populated with data. There will be 40 points on this graph – each one a sample of Red Grouse meat bought from Iceland Foods stores showing its measured lead content. I thought that explaining…
Lead Week, 7 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. You may have noticed that in the previous blog, which is actually an extract from a blog posted back in July, I asked Iceland how they felt about selling Red Grouse meat that probably has about ten times as much lead in it, on average, as would be…
Lead Week 6, #Pbweekmia
It’s not that we didn’t tell Iceland what they were doing… Here’s an extract from a blog I wrote about Iceland’s decision to sell Red Grouse in its stores back in July this year, soon after the announcement was made. ‘Iceland will have thought long and hard about this business decision of course, and it…