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 dont.
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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
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.
There would be no chemical lead contamination in a game animal killed with a lead bullet.
finally, an answer to the question of what killed off all of our ancestors that harvested food with bullets!
Eat lead
Stupid.
I know of at least 2 Kennedy’s that died of lead poisoninig. Tragic.
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.
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.
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.
Glad to hear that, I never shoot them in the joints, so I'm OK.
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.
Should have noted that this was a bad guy not Bambi.
Sorry for the duplicate, I just installed SP3.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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