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<blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 79743" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>Finding lead fragments in meat does NOT translate into lead poisoning.&nbsp; Having read dozens of scientific papers on the subject, in every study, the results are left up to interpretation.&nbsp; In many instances, the paper was based on a SINGLE individual that was found with several lead pellets in their appendix or had swallowed a large lead object.&nbsp; Many of these studies are based on hunter gatherer societies such as the Inuit people of the far north who eat nothing but lead killed meat.&nbsp; Even the CDC study done on a cohort from ND indicated that the consumption of meat killed with lead bullets did NOT increase lead levels in participants above the background lead levels for the population.&nbsp; While I am in no mood to engage in verbal swordplay, suffice it to say I am not convinced lead fragments, while present in game meat, pose a higher threat of lead poisoning than drinking the water from numerous places in the country.&nbsp; There are literally thousands of locations in this nation where lead levels in the groundwater, exceed those levels found in the blood chemistry of study subjects or participants and yet these locations receive little if any notoriety as being unsafe to live there.&nbsp; I refuse to listen to the &quot;Chicken Little&quot; proclamations and fear mongering concerning lead bullets.&nbsp; Research and Data do it for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="KDM, post: 79743, member: 314"] Finding lead fragments in meat does NOT translate into lead poisoning. Having read dozens of scientific papers on the subject, in every study, the results are left up to interpretation. In many instances, the paper was based on a SINGLE individual that was found with several lead pellets in their appendix or had swallowed a large lead object. Many of these studies are based on hunter gatherer societies such as the Inuit people of the far north who eat nothing but lead killed meat. Even the CDC study done on a cohort from ND indicated that the consumption of meat killed with lead bullets did NOT increase lead levels in participants above the background lead levels for the population. While I am in no mood to engage in verbal swordplay, suffice it to say I am not convinced lead fragments, while present in game meat, pose a higher threat of lead poisoning than drinking the water from numerous places in the country. There are literally thousands of locations in this nation where lead levels in the groundwater, exceed those levels found in the blood chemistry of study subjects or participants and yet these locations receive little if any notoriety as being unsafe to live there. I refuse to listen to the "Chicken Little" proclamations and fear mongering concerning lead bullets. Research and Data do it for me. [/QUOTE]

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