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Politics aside, the use of lead in hunting and fishing needs to go. We have known about this problem since the 1970s (actually since the Greeks and Romans), and still we do nothing. Now, after Pres. Obama banned lead from federal lands, the new Republican Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke reversed the ban. IMHO, this is the stupid conservative philosophy of “the government should do nothing” or “de-regulate, because all regulations are bad!”

I could mention the estimated 20 million wild animals that die each year from lead poisoning, which includes between 1.6 million and 2.4 million waterfowl. I could explain “bio-magnification” and how animals at the top of the food chain such as the California condor suffer almost chronic lead poisoning. However, it is best to tell you that we are poisoning the land, the water, and every living creature in this country. It is all a matter of entropy!

To show how the very hunters who object to the ban are impacted, yo...See More
Mendeleev On 3/08/17, T.E.C. - Iowa wrote: > Politics aside, the use of lead in hunting and fishing needs > to go. We have known about this problem since the 1970s > (actually since the Greeks and Romans), and still we do > nothing. Now, after Pres. Obama banned lead from federal > lands, the new Republican Secretary of the Interior Ryan > ...See More
Mar 8, 2017
T.E.C. - Iowa About the solubility of lead, the poster “Mendeleev” needs to read on what happens to lead in acid environments, what happens to lead when it is ingested, and what happens when it is lodged in the tissues

But the worst, the poster “Mendeleev” seems to be dismissing the use of lead and its role in lead poisoning – arguing that lea...See More
Mar 8, 2017


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