I understand putting them in bullets intended for things you’re not going to eat, such as military use. But why would we use something that can kill us and shoot it at something like a deer? Isn’t that risking lead poisoning?
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The lead in a bullet has low bioavailability- its not in a compound that is readily absorbed into our bodies.
But even then – the bullet/shot doesn’t spread lead through the animal, it stays as either a solid lump or fragments into a relatively small number of pieces that can be removed during butchering (assuming the bullet/shot doesn’t go though the animal), cooking or even while eating with relatively low risk of actual lead exposure.
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