Thread: Meat Contamination

Ingesting lead is probably a much greater risk if you are eating waterfowl downed using lead shot. Many people have bitten down on a pellet! Rabbit and hare shot with super fast ammo that basically disintegrates is also more like to add lead to your diet than an expanding hunting bullet. Like everything in life, nothing is completely risk free, but my estimation is that lead poisoning from meat is at the lower end of the scale.

Sanding a house with lead paint, casting dive weights or sinkers, shooting in an unventilated indoor range... Now that's risky in comparison.