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…
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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…