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…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
Waitrose warnings on lead
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…
Two cheers for Waitrose
I popped into my local Waitrose today to check out the game on sale. This ‘Good Health’ Pheasant breast has a health warning on the bottom of the packet. It’s good that Waitrose is highlighting the lead issue – although it comes closer to lowlighting than highlighting, I’d say. I wonder what other supermarkets selling…
Otto goes non-toxic
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…
Now, don’t lose your rag over this, please.
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….
University of Cape Town press release
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…
Just for completeness
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Here is the email chain, or most of it, that prompted this sensible briefing from Forest Enterprise England on their decision to use non-toxic ammunition on their land for the culling of deer and wild boar. It’s not very interesting really but you can see that this blog is read by people other than your…
Lead
‘There is a widespread consensus now that there is no safe level [of lead]’ BBC Radio 4: In their element – lead listen again here. The striking thing is the passage where the point is made that as techniques have improved it has become possible to demonstrate that lower and lower amounts of lead still…
Quite interesting – but not very meaningful
This article by the Countryside Alliance is quite interesting but not very convincing. The CA says that it believes that the most pressing issue for shooting is to self-regulate. I think that we can take that to mean that they are scared of anyone else regulating them – and so they should be because…
Guest blog by Anonymous
Dear Dr. Avery While it is undoubtedly the case that lead is a “bad thing” in general I have one good example of where the removal of significant amounts of lead from the environment has led to some very unwelcome environmental harm locally. For several years now, following the purchase of our home here in…