I think personally youāre on a Crusade to prove a point, where I think you will fail that there is any connection from lead shot game causing cancer cancer in humans in any way shape or form!
Cancer is a horrible creature both my father-in-law and my grandfather both lost their lives to cancer and to my knowledge. My grandfather never ate that shot game and my father-in-law ate all the game I gave him which was venison and that was shot with copper!
I have only started using lead for the first time in 15 years just as a personal protest because I donāt agree with being told with what I can and cannot shoot with what can I consume
You are free to do whatever want to do. Cancer is terrible - I have family and friends who also died of it - three of my grand parents, an aunt and two great uncles, my mother abd sister are both in remission. i have worked as an advisor to companies that are developing treatments for cancer and other nasty diseases.
I am a corporate advisor dealing with commercial strategies, but this gives a very close insight into the science, and also have to understand to at least level where I can explain it commercial partners.
Fundamentally statements āthat lead doesnāt killā, or ānobody has died from eating leadā are untrue.
I donāt really care whether you poison your own body, but I am very much of the belief that we should not put into the foodchain, whether that be for man, animal or bird substances that are harmful. Whether this is toxic metals, plastics or other chemicals- it doesnāt really matter - they are all equally as bad.
Your grandfather may not have eaten shot game, but he was almost certainly exposed to lead in petrol, paint, tin cans (lead solder was used in tin cans until the 1960ās), water pipes. He would also have been exposed high levels of tobacco smoke even if he never smoked. If he had been in the war he would probably had wide exposure all sorts of nasties no longer used. Nobody wore seatbelts, and everybody drank and thought nothing about driving home after several pints. Fatal accidents in factories, construction, military or on farms were part of the norm.
Life has moved on - many of things that our Grand parents lived are no longer used. Grand parents of previous generations died in their 50ās and 60ās. Many never made retirement age of 60 or 65.
I am all for free will, but not when the actions of one are detrimental to another. Thatās how society works. A fatal accident in the work place is now the exception. We are not exposed to second hand tobacco smoke on a train or in the workplace. Nor do we expect our food to contain harmful products.
There is still a long way to go. But in shooting, technologies have moved on. We no longer need to use one of the most harmful products known to man, when we have alternatives that you know full well work as good as if not better than lead based ammunition.
And from the wider PR perspective, shooting in all forms has a lot of detractors. Removing lead from the argument takes away a major leg of the anti shooting agenda.
So it couldn't be seen using x ray or mri or whatever then? Otherwise how would the doctors know the lady had a lodged pellet?
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