Its pretty much the most American headline I can think of
It is our national bird after all, it’s only fair that it also be terminally lead poisoned!
I’m about to do my patriotic duty and go get lead poisoning myself.
You jest, but when people learn that lead makes people less intelligent and more sadistic, it will be marketed as an “anti-soy” to make people more manly.
You couldn’t find a more fitting national animal for the US than a predator with lead poisoning.
Fun fact: Bald Eagles are mostly scavengers! Even more fitting, if you ask me.
Lead should be banned from everything except for the most critical, regulated, and centralized uses. It consistently bioaccumulates and causes horrible health problems for people and other animals.
If the side effect of that is that bullets become insanely expensive, then :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yeah steel shot isn’t that expensive but the loss in density sucks for certain things.
Why are there corpses left to be scavenged!!?
Are there fucks just shooting and leaving behind the bodies like trash?
If someone that hunts lives somewhere they can eat a vegan diet, they should be doing that otherwise they’re reactionary
edited because I worded this poorly the first time
Hunting is a hobby and also a thing people have been doing forever.
cool, doesnt matter
If you don’t need to kill animals to survive, killing animals is imbalanced violence for treats. Weaponry has gotten advanced and we’ve become numerous and efficient killers. If people want the cat-like thrill of precision-shot killing, they should try target practice, laser tag, or one of the thousands of FPS games out there. In the end it seems to come down to this idea of “it’s not as personally significant/fun if I can’t feel the kill/taste the body” outweighing both harming/slaying an animal and making yourself a killer. It’s encouraged. Just doesn’t sit right.
There are more than a few assholes who hunt solely for trophies (i.e. they hunt whitetail deer, but only cut off the antlers and leave the rest)
There are also probably times where a hunter will hit/kill it’s target, but be unable to find it. Finding a downed bird is rather hard in extremely dense underbrush
The majority of the lead accumulation comes from the pellets in bird shot that don’t hit anything. They end up mixed into the water, and birds will eat them and get them in their gizzards thinking they are pebbles.
And I am proud to be an American
where at least I know I’m free
