Category: Lead

Our hunting organisations are dinosaurs compared with those elsewhere in Europe – and even in many ways compared with those in the USA and Canada. As Waitrose consider rewording their health warning on their packs of game meat on sale in their stores (see here and here) they should glance at the advice on consumption…

I do think that Waitrose deserve some credit for having this heath warning about lead shot on their game meat even though it is very badly worded.  I think they are leading (no pun intended) the way in telling the public that eating lead is an issue – I am not aware of any warnings…

The People’s Manifesto for Wildlife called for: Government to put the UK on the front foot by introducing a ban on the sale, possession and use of all lead ammunition across the UK Food Standards Agency and National Health Service to undertake a public awareness campaign to promote the health risks from consumption of game…

That there is a link between lead exposure and violent crime has been known for quite a l0ng time, and is the subject of some quite extraordinary correlations between removal of lead from petrol and reduction in violent crime rates across the globe, backed up by plenty of studies that illuminate the potential causal links….

  BIG GAME HUNTERS IN AFRICA URGED TO DROP THE LEAD TO HELP SAVE VULTURES! Lead bullet fragments in carcasses left by hunters are poisoning endangered African vultures, a new study has found. A third of all vultures caught and tested in the Botswana study showed elevated levels of lead in their blood, most likely…