Thread: Lead contaminated meat

Originally Posted by Tahr

Why anyone would want to eat blood shot meat anyway is beyond me. I trim really heavily so doubt if any lead is ingested by us. I'm particularly careful about the meat that goes to the soup kitchen. The trim goes to my dog. Maybe though I'm slowly poisoning her?

Exactly ,l can say l have been eating shot game of all sorts for over 50 yrs,did the usual swallowed the odd air rifle pellets as a kid , shot gun pellets in cooked game,spent years smelting/making lead sinkers,years handling lead shot reloading shot gun shells, renovated old lead painted houses before it was even thought harmful,worked in mines where Lead & Uranium was common & spent 3 years in Top End of Australia shooting tens of thousands of rounds of soft points & SSG's from helicopters & spraying tens of thousands of Acres with pesticides using Aerial, Air Boats, 4x4 & quads .

For a decade l would have full blood scans done 4 times a year (my business insurance required twice a year ,l did additional for peace of mind & to use as a proof of safe operation for new contract tenders) ,the only times l had a rise in levels was after a mate & l rode motorcycles across India to Nepal ,this was when the recycle market ,(in reality the West dumping all their contaminated shit in containers & sending it to Third World countries to make hand wringers think they are doing good), was in full gear & for 5 weeks even through all the insane traffic & exhaust fumes all you could smell was burnt plastic as huge piles of this "recycled "plastic was being burnt as it was too contaminated even for them to handle & we would look like raccoons after a few hours riding from road & air grime covering our faces .

I have always treated game meat the same as l treat plastic wrapped meat from the supermarket ,wouldn't eat bruised,blood shot brought meat nor would l eat stuff covered in dirt ,left out in high temperatures,swimming in blood at the bottom of a chilly bin for hours etc .

I like a stew made of neck chops ,so my standard shot 99.9% of the time is angled chest shot aiming for off side shoulder,only untouched front leg is taken along with everything else apart from chest & offside leg.