Dear Rules Restaurant I once treated a couple of friends of mine to a meal at your place and I’m wondering whether to invite them back for a post-lockdown get together some time. However, I contacted you several years ago about your policy on lead contamination of your game meat. Rather bizarrely you didn’t answer…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
Proposal to set statutory Maximum Levels for lead in game meat.
In an open-access paper published this week, four biologists, one of whom is also a hunter, propose that as well as banning the use of lead ammunition for shooting game there should also be a legal Maximum Level (ML) set for lead in game meat. This seems entirely sensible since there is a ML for…
The life scientific with Prof Debbie Pain
This programme is quite fun – my friend Debbie Pain talks about lead poisoning, saving Asian vultures and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Although I’m sure there is even more to come, the examples demonstrate how Debbie has already had a career packed with both scientific and conservation achievement. It’s well worth a listen. And it provides…
Prof Pain on lead ammunition
Debbie Pain talking sense on lead on Inside Science – first 15 minutes. Great stuff.
GWCT on lead ammunition
The GWCT’s Andrew Gilruth writes about lead on the GWCT blog. First he reveals that only just over half (53%) of respondents to a GWCT survey agreed with moving away from lead shot. The reasons why people did and didn’t favour the move are interesting. Those not ready to move away from lead yet are…
NEWS: shooting organisations bow to the inevitable on lead
This statement from a bunch of land owning, land managing and shooting organisations is to be welcomed but not praised. After years of hindering progress these ultra-conservative bodies have bowed to the inevitable and said they want (not that they will ensure) an end to lead ammunition use on live quarry within five years. It’s…
Extensive use of lead
Extensive use of toxic lead paint on Big Ben contributes to £19m price-hike in renovation. I’m pretty sure that there isn’t 6000 tonnes of lead in Big Ben but that amount is added irretrievably to the countryside every year. And, of course, shooters all over the country, through choice not necessity, have been shooting toxic…
Get rid of lead ammunition from deer culling – Deer Working Group
The Working Group recommends that the Scottish Government should make a clear commitment to end the use of lead bullets to shoot deer in Scotland, carry out the necessary research and promotion to enable that change to be made after a transition period and, as a part of that, amend The Deer (Firearms, etc.) (Scotland)…
Sophie increases lead intake of customers?
Farming Today (today, 1 minute into the programme) features former chartered accountant Sophie Bagley and her game meat enterprise in Yorkshire (as featured earlier in the Mail Online). What she says about game meat is largely true – it is low cholesterol, it is low carbon, it is low fat and to some extent game…
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Two Cambridge colleges, at either end of The Backs, have recently announced their new ‘Masters’. At the up-town end of the waterway, and said to be the richest per student capita college of all, St John’s, the new Master will be Heather Hancock. Mrs Hancock has featured in this blog now and again over the…