Now the NRA is demanding the USA Congress enforce more danger to wildlife by demanding legislation that assures the sale of lead shot, bullets and sinkers.
Once lead is ingested by birds and fish it creates toxins that will kill them and/or and lead to their flesh when sports provide them as a meal on the table.
Every aspect of the use of toxic substances allowed in wildlife habitat is disgusting as well as dangerous. The EPA needs to ban lead from any and all use when it comes to POLLUTING the environment.
...There are perfectly acceptable, nontoxic substitutes. (click here) Fishermen and hunters have been voluntarily adopting bismuth shot, copper bullets, and nonlead sinkers. Several states have set up exchange programs to encourage hunters to turn in lead-based shells for nonlead shells. In the past few years, 25 states have proposed bills to eliminate lead shot. They have regularly gone down to defeat thanks to deceptive campaigns that portray the effort as anti-gun, anti-hunting or anti-fishing.Banning lead poses no threat to hunters or fishermen. It is a way of making sure they kill only the prey they seek without inadvertently killing other creatures as well. Congress should ignore the N.R.A.’s importunings and reject this latest misguided legislation. And the E.P.A. should issue the ban.
To the right is lead shot removed from the stomach of a Mallard Duck. The birds, fish and wildlife treat it like food. Allowing this to continue is hideous.
