Is it just me or does it seem that the government spends more time trying to create problems than focusing on the problems that are right in front of them?
In Saturday’s Star and Tribune the Minnesota Department of Health is raising a specter of lead poisoning from eating gun shot venison.
I’ll admit to not being a deer hunter. However, I’ve eaten my share of fowl shot with lead over the years. Other than that third arm I have growing out of my back, I’ve seen no impact of a little lead in my diet…KIDDING!
Lead shot has a history going back to the mid 1500’s. I did some Google searching and while information for the 1600’s and late 1500’s was a little difficult to parse (Darn, if only Al Gore had been born during the Dark Ages we would have had the internet so much earlier), I wasn’t able to find any epidemic of death certificates that listed “lead poisoning from venison ingestion” anywhere.
The MSM wails about how President Bush and the Republicans use “scare tactics” to motivate voters. Apparently “scare” is perfectly acceptable to the MSM when they want to further their “man is a pariah on the planet” agenda.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a nicely baked pheasant awaiting my arrival.
Bon Appetite!
Um, if you’re using lead shot to go after Bambi I’m betting that your chances of lead poisoning are slim indeed. Unless you get a really slow one that you can shoot a half-dozen times.
Pheasant, possibly. Goose, maybe. Venison, not bloody likely.
Yup, that’s my sense of it. And to get lead poisoning from fowl you’d have to like a lot of grit in your meat!