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Study targets lead levels in wild game
The Forum ^ | May 14, 2008 | Erin Hemme-Froslie

Posted on 05/14/2008 2:06:25 PM PDT by Last Dakotan

Hundreds of North Dakotans can help solve a health mystery by participating in a study that will investigate possible risks associated with eating wild game killed by lead bullets.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the North Dakota Department of Health will test the blood-lead levels of 680 people in the state. The study, which starts Friday, will compare blood lead levels of people who eat venison with the levels of those who don’t.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hunting; lead
This is ridiculous
1 posted on 05/14/2008 2:06:26 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Last Dakotan

I’ve ingested pellets from pheasant I’ve shot. My neighbor the doctor / hunter tells me not to worry. It passes right through.

- Still in Fargo


2 posted on 05/14/2008 2:08:19 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Individualism is the Perfection of Diversity.)
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To: Last Dakotan

So how many venison eaters also shoot at ranges, or cast bullets, or reload?

This is a follower to the study where some moonbat cat-scanned a pile of venison and said the bone chip shadows were al deadly lead.


3 posted on 05/14/2008 2:09:47 PM PDT by Ender Wiggin
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To: Last Dakotan
Metallic lead is not water-soluble.

There would be no chemical lead contamination in a game animal killed with a lead bullet.

4 posted on 05/14/2008 2:10:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Last Dakotan

finally, an answer to the question of what killed off all of our ancestors that harvested food with bullets!


5 posted on 05/14/2008 2:18:19 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: bang_list

Eat lead


6 posted on 05/14/2008 2:19:33 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Last Dakotan

Stupid.


7 posted on 05/14/2008 2:32:30 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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To: Last Dakotan

I know of at least 2 Kennedy’s that died of lead poisoninig. Tragic.


8 posted on 05/14/2008 2:47:43 PM PDT by mallardx
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is a stupid study by a bunch of “challenged” individuals called epidemiologists who will come up with some statistical method to prove whatever result they want. Most of the ones I know are flaming libs and tree huggers. They love Bambi.

There is one paper that I am aware of where a bullet was left in the synovial fluid of a large joint which resulted in lead poisoning. It was hypothesized that the hyaluronic acid in the synovial fluid decreased the pH just enough to increase the solubility of the lead and increase its normal absorption rate from none to a little.


9 posted on 05/14/2008 3:18:38 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is a stupid study by a bunch of “challenged” individuals called epidemiologists who will come up with some statistical method to prove whatever result they want. Most of the ones I know are flaming libs and tree huggers. They love Bambi.

There is one paper that I am aware of where a bullet was left in the synovial fluid of a large joint which resulted in lead poisoning. It was hypothesized that the hyaluronic acid in the synovial fluid decreased the pH just enough to increase the solubility of the lead and increase its normal absorption rate from none to a little.


10 posted on 05/14/2008 3:19:28 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
If you'd like to be on or off this Upper Midwest/outdoors/rural list please FR mail me. And ping me is you see articles of interest.

Lead levels in venison, of all things to study. But it's on the governments dime, someone tell them that's my dime, and I don't care.

11 posted on 05/14/2008 3:25:37 PM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
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To: A Strict Constructionist
There is one paper that I am aware of where a bullet was left in the synovial fluid of a large joint which resulted in lead poisoning

Glad to hear that, I never shoot them in the joints, so I'm OK.

12 posted on 05/14/2008 3:27:21 PM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Metallic lead slowly oxidizes in the presence of air, and sulfur and nitrogen lead compounds also are easily made. Lead in the body very slowly over time is oxidized and then become soluable. Generally the rate of soution is slow enough that when there is any doubt about the safety of removing lead pellets, doctors leave them in.


13 posted on 05/14/2008 3:28:20 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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To: SJackson

Should have noted that this was a bad guy not Bambi.


14 posted on 05/14/2008 3:33:59 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: A Strict Constructionist

Sorry for the duplicate, I just installed SP3.


15 posted on 05/14/2008 3:35:18 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: Last Dakotan

It is great to hear that the ND state budget is so flush with extra funds that they can do these ‘what if’ studies with YOUR money.


16 posted on 05/14/2008 3:59:02 PM PDT by B4Ranch
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To: A Strict Constructionist
Sometimes lead poisening can be a good thing, particularly the short term variety.
17 posted on 05/14/2008 3:59:39 PM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
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To: Last Dakotan
The recent scam scandal run in North Dakota by a slime ball doctor is just that, a scam. This guy got all this meat and xsrayed it claiming leat spatter. I maintain he "salted" the meat with lead as there is no mention of brass, bronze or copper material in with the lead.

As far as buzzards and raptors eating lead tainted meat, consider that the meat is taken from the field and the ofal is left behind. There is little bullet material left in offal.

18 posted on 05/14/2008 4:21:04 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: SJackson

A lead study for venison and Michigan just raised the yearly deer limit to 7.

http://www.mlive.com/news/citpat/index.ssf?/base/news-25/1210773921147880.xml&coll=3

I guess that will give them more to study?


19 posted on 05/14/2008 4:51:25 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: B4Ranch
On Tuesday, an Idaho raptor group working to eliminate lead from ammunitions released a study that shows 80 percent of ground venison from deer killed with high-velocity lead bullets contains metal fragments. The Peregrine Fund says the study is further evidence people who eat meat from game animals shot with lead bullets risk exposure to the toxic metal.

Here it is. A birdwatching group will be looking to ban lead bullets on the assumption that tiny fragments of lead in the meat will be bad for all the things that eat the meat.

(Anti-hunting at its finest).

How they arrived at the 80% figure is beyond me... unless it is a really wild eyed 'one fragment per ton sort' of thing. The ideal hunting round penetrates and transfers energy, but usually remains fairly intact. The best shots keep the bullet out of the best meat.

My bet is the State will conduct the study, because without solid evidence to refute the allegations, they cannot.

I would wager this cost the anti-hunters at least a long night and a bag of their best weed to come up with the whole angle.

20 posted on 05/14/2008 8:59:24 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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