However did I survive?I would absolutely agree your comments about plastic, but lead is pretty harmful as well to pregnant women and young children - it’s particularly harmful to the development of young brains.
Bear in mind that the unborn in the womb is nourished from the blood of the mother, so any toxins in the mothers end up in the embryo and then pheotus. .
Have a read of
Lead poisoning
Lead is a naturally occurring toxic metal found in the Earth’s crust. Its widespread use has resulted in extensive environmental contamination, human exposure and significant public health problems in many parts of the world.www.who.int
May I ask your age and when did you start eating shot game please?
67, forced to eat it during the 1960s whether I liked it or not. I understand that my mother ate shot game when she was pregnant both with me and my brother, now aged 69. Both of us excelled academically, how was this all possible? Surely if the medical profession is correct we both should have been dunces at school and have long since expired by now?
Thank you.
That appears to be a case from Sweden, not the UK, thus Tazz's comment stands.
In the reading up I've been doing, trying to present evidence that is balanced, acknowledging areas of uncertainty, using my experience and learning, I've almost made a point of avoiding what some on here regard as the anti-lead cabal - it hasn't always been possible. The Swedish case is interesting in lots of respects, not least as it lists other cases of ingested lead leading to lead poisoning.
Which ought to have perhaps rung an alarm bell?
That is something of a deflection. The pertinent fact is that the case you've cited cannot be confidently represented as actually being somebody poisoned by ingesting food contaminated with lead ammunition. (She did not admit having eaten game meat at all in the relevant period, the particle did not correlate to any legal or plausible projectile , and the authors made spurious statements about it. ) You have not admitted that fact, even though the authors did. I'm having difficulty accepting that you can read that and reach the opposite conclusion, without being significantly biased. Where am I wrong in this?
With respect, the absence of the critical parts of your case are hardly exceptions or loopholes. What you are doing, in common with fellow travellers, is simply making a limited case, extrapolating it far beyond the limits of what can be supported by evidence and then claiming that the case is conclusive, and treating those who notice the fact that the evidence is weak or non-existent as being less rational than you. Instead of either re-assessing your opinion in light of what the facts actually indicate, or amend the case to address its deficiencies, they continue to persist in a seriously defective path by making straw man arguments revolving around irrelevances to do with leaded petrol, paint, industrial lead, condors, the fact that lead is toxic when people are exposed to its compounds etc. This is incorrect.
That is not in dispute. However, it is also very, very different from the opinion that lead ammunition is so harmful to human and animal health as to merit a ban.
i have found them to be very sensitive to 32g of number 5 lead shot although a few i tested this on seemed to fly by unaffected often after a second barrel as well.......
Agreed on all three counts. BUT, the caveat is that I personally don't believe that the mechanisms of lead distribution and ingestion lead to any of the above actually being manifested in reality.
