This is Lead Week on this blog. Methods 40 grouse were purchased (in packs of two each to serve two people, with one grouse per person) from Iceland stores in September 2015. Grouse were purchased from three separate stores in England. All were in boxes indicating that they were supplied by ‘Kezie’ and all…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
Lead Week, 4 #Pbweekmia
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, 3 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. The lead levels in game meat are due to the fact that they have lead shot propelled into them to kill them. Other forms of ammunition are available and are used widely in other parts of the world for shooting game for food or fun. The trouble with…
Lead Week, 2 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. Some background: Lead is a poison. We have removed lead from paints, water pipes, fishing weights, and most significantly from petrol. All of these changes were opposed by vested interests at the time and no-one is asking for those changes to…
Lead Week – Pb#1
This is Lead Week on this blog. Later this week I will reveal the results of the analyses* of Red Grouse purchased in Iceland Food stores earlier in the year. These results will be of particular interest to Iceland Foods and Iceland Food customers. These results will also be of interest to other supermarkets which…
2015 – a bad year for driven grouse shooting
Few Red Grouse were shot in the UK this year, mainly because of disease and bad weather. But regardless of grouse bags, this was a very bad year for driven grouse shooting and hastened the end of this worthless hobby. The case against driven grouse shooting is that it depends on intensive management that involves…
Labour has this right
The Shadow environment minister, Alex Cunningham, spoke well in the Westminster Hall debate last week saying ‘As a responsible society, recognising the inherent dangers, we have already taken action and regulated to cut lead from petrol, from paint and from water pipes. But, despite the evidence and our previous moves to regulate other sources of…
Taking lead off the map
There are two e-petitions relating to toxic lead ammunition. At the moment the one asking for a continuation of our birds being poisoned and our food being adulterated with lead has more signatures so please sign Rob Sheldon’s e-petition to replace toxic lead ammunition with non-toxic alternatives. I find the relatively new Westminster parliament website…
Congratulations to Rob Sheldon – and WWT
Yesterday saw a surge of support for Rob Sheldon’s e-petition to ban toxic lead ammunition from use. It passed the 5000 signatures mark with well over a thousand new signatures in one day. Not, perhaps, as impressive as over a third of a million signatures to ban Donald Trump from entry into the UK arriving…
Westminster Hall debate on toxic ammunition
The transcript of yesterday afternoon’s Westminster Hall debate on lead ammunition is available here. I’m always impressed by how quickly these things appear. I attended the debate, even though you can watch it on TV – it’s like live sport, it’s much more fun to be there to see the tackles going in. As a…