Just adding information for people to understand the facts of why and how. Animals are not eating metal from lead bullets and even if one did manage to swallow a bullet or fragment lodged in a piece of meat, it would pass through the rapid digestive system in the animal before any appreciable volume of metallic lead could be converted for biouptake. His name I forget but the man who was responsible for producing the completely fabricated lies used to push the lead birdshot ban admitted to fabricating the information falsifying the test methods. The waterfowl used in the production of lies were starved for many days before being given mostly lead birdshot mixed with some food because it was the only way to get the fowl to consume the shot pellets. In many cases even the starving bird would not eat enough shot to make for good pictures, so they were force-fed in the same manner the French torture fowl to produce foie gras (fatted liver). Except for some fowl feeding consistently in an area heavily contaminated with lead birdshot, it is extremely rare to find wild fowl consuming more than perhaps a stray pellet in their life time. Fowl are not as foolish as the people who claim they are and all one need do is observe them in the wild or look to the actual scientific testing proving without doubt that fowl do not readily consume that which they can gain no nutritional value from and they select irregular shaped rough grit, not smooth and round grit.
Lead isn't coming from bullets or birdshot, it is come from lead arsenate (PbHAsO4) and more than two dozen other pesticides, herbicides and rodentcides. Herbicides like monosodium methanearsonate (MSMA) are widely used and mostly abused with the results presenting as heavy metal toxicity which it is, but not from hunting bullets or other metallic lead which cannot readily convert for biouptake, but from the acetates which are ready for biouptake through consumption and contact. Glyphosate (Round Up) and 2,4-D (Agent Orange) and monosodium methanearsonate (MSMA) are three of the most widely used herbicides in the United States despite being banned in 29 other countries. Both of products cause extraction contamination where heavy metal acetates contained in pesticides, rodencides and other widely used products are uptaken by plants. In particular 2,4-D and MSMA cause normally unpalatable plants to become highly palatable to herbivores and omnivores who are being poisoned not only by the toxins in the herbicides themselves but also the heavy metal acetates which were uptaken by plants.
It remains scientifically, biologically and mathematically impossible for all the animals claims to be poisoned by lead not only to be poisoned by lead but more importantly poisoned by lead hunting ammunition. If this were the case, one could not take five steps anywhere in the woods without finding a bullet laying on the ground ready to be consumed by some unsuspecting animals. It is absurd to even consider the possibility, yet there is a mass of fools buying the lies and propaganda. Don't argue politics, argue science!
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