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.
good news on that one I guess that's been widely known for decades
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.
that makes sense as they're likely eating animals which have been shot and not picked up
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.
Limiting lead for ranges is perfectly reasonable. As long as you have control over the area it should be mostly ok.
Absolutely. It'd be worth it just to stem the flow of lead from mines to our environment, ecosystems, and water supplies! Though as SerLava said, steel bullets are fine.
so keep it for nulear shielding and pretty much nothing else
I dunno they kinda seem to have rage issues but maybe I'm just biased
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
This comment was not baiting a struggle session, I expanded on what I originally said because someone engaged with me
I'm allowed to explain that my belief that hunters are bad is rooted in my belief that eating animals is reactionary (for those with the means not to)
Please restore my comment since it was removed inappropriately
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
I mean if almost half of eagles have the poisoning, this seems to indicate a far vaster problem than originally anticipated
Yes. There are also hunters that miss their shots and lethally injure the animal but not so much that it can't run away first.
Elmer Fudd did, it’s the reason for the ONE time Bugs and Daffy teamed up against him
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.
If this America is a novel this would get lambasted for being such a heavy handed metaphor.
i'm sorry, this narrative is too obvious and on-the-nose, please submit another draft before we upload it to the simulation. WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS ALREADY LIVE?
This is the most American headline I've read in awhile :amerikkka-clap:
i got lead poisoning as a child and it got stuck in my legs and im fine now im sure these birds can handle it
