What's Good and What's Bad

Heroin is in; venison is out

By M. Farbman Posted 12.01.2008 at 11:43 am 3 Comments

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supergrover

12/01/08 at 2:34 pm

1. the author(s) should have read FIELD & STREAM before writing the second point. the only times you could possibly consume poisonous venison is if the hunter or butcher is stupid enough to put the meat cut around the bullet hole into ground beef or sausage.

2. show me one study linking hunters to a lead poisoning increase of more than 3% (to rule out unrelated differences between hunters and non hunters).

3. i agree with the canadians; sinse when is plastic water bottles eco frendly?

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generic_me01

from Syracuse, IN

12/02/08 at 10:42 am

Not too sure, but the Pittsburg Tribune seems a more objective institution than Field & Stream. I'm sure there are other ways of contaminating meat other than sloppy butcher work.

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sunsettactical

12/02/08 at 9:11 pm

sorry generic, but grover is right. the only way a bullet could contaminate your meat is if you left the flesh immediately near the bullet in when you process the deer. think about it, flesh is quite dense and it would take way too long for the tiny amount of lead in a bullet to spread through a dead, non blood pumping body to do any harm to someone. plus, a good shot is going to hit the deer in the heart or lungs, which any good hunter removes in the field long before the deer is processed