Lead and nontoxic debate

[Apthorpe]

I suspect Aluminium has caused more health problems in humans than Lead.

Camelford water poisoning: Aluminium in brain 'beyond belief'

An inquest into the death of a woman who lived in a Cornwall town where the water supply was poisoned in the 1980s hears aluminium levels in her brain were "beyond belief".

www.bbc.co.uk

I don't. I think all these claims that copper, aluminium or other metals are as harmful as lead are very counter-productive. It is clearly untrue, and I can't quite understand why people do it.

What that article does provide is a good argument against nationalised water supply.

 

[Spear Chucker]

I suspect Aluminium has caused more health problems in humans than Lead.

Camelford water poisoning: Aluminium in brain 'beyond belief'

An inquest into the death of a woman who lived in a Cornwall town where the water supply was poisoned in the 1980s hears aluminium levels in her brain were "beyond belief".

www.bbc.co.uk

Remember reading a recipe book written by an old Africa hand in the 1960s. He made the remark then that Africans had not really had major problems with cancers until they were introduced to aluminium cooking pots.

 

[timbrayford]

Unfortunately there's a case to be made against excessive consumption of metals, including steel. The shooting orgs have made a rod for our own backs, the food buying public don't want lumps of metal of any kind in what they eat, regardless of steel, lead or anything else that need not be there.

 

[enfieldspares]

The underlying principle of these proposals is they are a direct attack on shooting sports, if it was to save the environment both police and military would face the same restrictions

And why don't they face the same restrictions? Because there is NOTHING that will substitute for lead at an affordable cost.

Thus showing that all along this has been an attack on live quarry shooting with shotguns (disguised as an environmental concern) through the route of effectively pricing out the "low hanging fruit" of the sportsman and woman of modest means. Else why is the .22" Rimfire and 9mm RImfire shotgun not exempted?

The line or march being chosen is that if "these people" can no longer afford to pay then they also can no longer choose to play.

 

[timbrayford]

And why don't they face the same restrictions? Because there is NOTHING that will substitute for lead at an affordable cost.

Thus showing that all along this has been an attack on live quarry shooting with shotguns (disguised as an environmental concern) through the route of effectively pricing out the "low hanging fruit" of the sportsman and woman of modest means. Else why is the .22" Rimfire and 9mm RImfire shotgun not exempted?

The line or march being chosen is that if "these people" can no longer afford to pay then they also can no longer choose to play.

What both BASC and the GWCT fail to realise with their evangelical "lead is dead" campaigns is that they are in effect doing a Ratners with the wholesome wild meat that we all supply the general public with. Perhaps that's what Swift/Packham etc had in mind all along?