This is an interesting paper which looks at the attitudes of a small sample (30) of male shooters to lead ammunition. It’s something called a Q-study – something unfamiliar to me. As I understand it, the study chose the group of respondents not to be representative of the shooting community, but in fact to represent…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
EDM 1963 – progress, but very slow progress
A total of 27 MPs have put their names to EDM 1963 on lead ammunition. That’s respectable, but unimpressive. My MP will never sign it – might yours? Please ask them. The score sheet is: Green Party, 1; Conservative Party, 1; Independent, 1; the Independent Group, 1; SNP, 4; Liberal Democrat, 4; Labour, 15
Lead – well done Anglian Water
Anglian Water think that it is worth putting cards like this through their customers’ letterboxes (even though the pipes are the customers’ responsibility not the water company). Good for them! Whereas almost no supermarkets label the lead-laden game meat that they sell specifically for human consumption, and those that do get the wording badly wrong…
Another, new-ish, paper on the impacts of lead ammunition
This paper came out in the autumn, Lead content in wild game shot with lead or non-lead ammunition – Does “state of the art consumer health protection” require non-lead ammunition? Here is the abstract, the highlighted words were my choice of highlight, The toxicity of lead has been known for a long time, and no…
A new paper on lead impacts
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This paper is interesting, Wildlife, human and environmental costs of using lead ammunition: An economic review and analysis Here is the abstract, with my choice of highlighted words, A proposed European Union (EU)-wide restriction on the use of lead gunshot for shooting in and over wetlands estimated that the societal benefits of a restriction outweighed…
Thank you United Utilities
I asked United Utilities for some information on two subjects on 2 March and got my first reply on 19 March – that’s a hell of a lot quicker than Natural England usually manage. Thank you United Utilities. This question was about lead levels in water. This subject came up in questions after my talk…
Preston
I spoke to an audience of 160 folk in a church in Preston on Monday evening. I enjoyed it. There were some familiar faces in the audience (some raptor workers, some RSPB staff, some birders, some regular readers of and commenters on this blog and some BASC staff). It made the evening more interesting to…
Progress is a bit slow
There are now 21 MPs who have added their names to Caroline Lucas’s Early Day Motion on lead ammunition. The system seems to be working rather slowly – I know of a couple of MPs who have told constituents that they had signed and it was days later that their names appeared. No matter. Welcome…
Inside Out and Upside Down
The BBC are going to feature a scheme which feeds game to the hungry and needy in the East of England this evening (19:30 broadcast). I wonder whether they will ask questions about the lead levels in the game that is provided? Will they point out that a major food provider, Fareshare, refused lead-shot game…
Waitrose – still rather pathetic!
It seems that Waitrose is moving very, very slowly to change its misleading health warning on the game meat that it has been selling for weeks and weeks in its stores. I say ‘it seems’ because I received this response on Wednesday … Dear Dr Avery Thanks for your patience while I looked into this…