Lead Contamination in Fish and Game
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2017
- Most hunters may not be aware about the health risks related to consuming meat from animals shot with lead ammunition.
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A Norwegian study shows people who live in the countryside and eat game often have less lead in them than people who live in cities
Nice timing on this video release!
The "I've been doing ____ and I'm fine" argument drives me fucking insane. As if to imply that they're already flawless.
Thank you for all the valuable rational information! A little off topic from this video but I'm wondering about oils/fatty acids and health: Having watched your videos about the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids, I wonder if I'm better off, as I am now, eating a very low oil diet, getting most additional oils inadvertently and hence probably mostly "bad" oils but in very low total amounts, OR would I be better off if I added some "good" (high in omega-3) oils to change the ratio? In other words, is the ratio more important or avoidance of oils? Thanks again for all the great work!!
Over 30 years ago my husband was an avid duck hunter as we were stationed in Missouri. Back then lead ammo was banned for fowl hunting because it affected the hatch rate of the water fowl making their eggs to thin (it was the marsh, their nesting grounds, where they hunted leaving all the missed shots. They didnt even care about the environment contamination, or human health, only that there were more ducks to shoot. SMH
Please consider doing a follow-up video on lead from aviation gasoline (avgas) near general aviation airports and under small aircraft flight paths!
I got my signed bookplate! Thank you Dr. Gregor!
"Ah, but imagine how smart you could have been" - love it.
The company I work for makes bullets for the US Army.
We make a Sn/Bi (tin/bismuth) bullet head.
They are cleaning up all their ranges on bases in the states.
The name 'huntard' seems even more appropriate after watching this. ;)
Weirduncle Bob V best comment of the day
I had a question about the topic of the existence of non-prescription based alternatives to thyroid hormone as in are there any?
Thanks for this! Bioaccumulation is obvious. But I never thought about the bullets!!! 0_0
I can see the industry response now.... compressed Soy bullets! LOL
Unemployed Pig Farmer
AlboPepper - Drought Proof Urban Gardening how could you not think about it? It's so apparent. I became aware of it 25 years ago as a kid after shooting a lead pellet into my right hand by accident. It's still in there unfortunately 😕
Even though I grew up in a hunting community, I never really got into it. Lead bullets are just not anything that I've given any thought to. But, yes it is quite an apparent issue. I was surprised to see the data from an older video showing how much lead exposure occurs from simply breathing the air at a shooting range. No thanks! Sorry about your hand btw, that sucks. :(
AlboPepper - Drought Proof Urban Gardening yeah I didn't even know it was in there till years later. I thought it was more of a surface wound and didn't penetrate. But thanks. I'm going to have it taken out one one soon hopefully
HAHAHAHAHA the last response from the physician was awesome! Thanks for another video Doctor. By the way, thanks to you I am vegan. I have been vegan for one year and 5 months now. It was June 25th 2016 I ate my last piece of meat. I am never going to look back ever again to that life style of eating and using animal products.
My friend lets her son's use her garden as a backstop for their shooting range. They laughed when I mentioned led contamination. Ignorance can be bliss; Intentional ignorance slowly deadly.
Idiots... Natural selection will hopefully do its job. (bwahaha) O:)
Second Act Yikes! 😟
Joe Rogan needs to see this. His response would probably be to buy & use lead free ammunition instead of not hunting tho lol
as long as he tests the ammunition on his head before giving his opinion, heyyy
Joe Rogan is a selfish moron.
Ok and what is the problem with that?
This is an illustration of karma. It's best to leave the animals be.
Except animals don't let other animals be. The entire web of life is one life form eating another and so on.
Humans evolved eating fruit and leaves. That web of life thing kills humans before their time.
What plants contain lead?
Savage ending
More like corny but ok lol
I got no notification. But, here I am.
Call the press we got some badasses here
I can just hear my meat-eating and bow-hunting friend now... What about from Arrows used in Bow-and-Arrow hunting setups instead of the bullets?
What about the studies that showed radiolytic elements and food quality that changed from using microwaves?
And what about the studies that showed microwaved food can have higher nutrition and lower advanced glycation end products (both great for health and long life)?
Closer to home... lead is frequently added to the plastic coating of wires, extension cords, cell battery charger cables, etc to keep them flexible.
Keep em coming doc! You are the best!
Guys who hangout alone in the woods, drinking wild turkey and murdering animals could have brain damage? #shocking
Great presentation! Although it left me still wondering about microwave use. Please expound.
What part of don't drop it on your foot didn't you understand? Microwaves are fine.
I heard about how it changes the molecular structure of food and even water
@@jumanalee3746 Yes it does, that is how micro waves work (as in the physics of electromagnetic waves).
Señor greger me preocupa los estrógenos que hay en la semilla de Lino y usted lo promueve mucho por favor me dé una respuesta yo soy su seguidor
Wait, what? 01:23 can you please repeat that? Maybe expand on it in another video?
Even shark stop to eat fish "I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food."
Who knows where this may lead to ?
I've been thinking for a while Munitions should be Iron
Lead is horrible
The x-ray shown seems to be of a bird so a shotgun would have been used, those aren't bullet fragments but are birdshot, birdshot shotgun cartridges are made up using tiny lead pellets that fly through the air,
Well that's no good.
Any alternative for a more healthy ammunition? I suppose arrows, stones, handgranades, spears and boomerangs
I eat fish four times a week, mostly salmon. Guess I should get my levels checked.
Funny you show bullets ,,,,,,, there are likely much more lead fishing weights in the water . Better to clean your own deer than let the local ya hoo put lead frags in your meat . I have cleaned many critters , it's not hard to see where the lead is .
What happens if you hunt with bow and arrow, not Guns?
Just posted new episode of #WorstOfTheFoodIndustry on Ivor Cummins
Also, sardines are very low in heavy metals + they are rich in epa and dha and protein, so they are good for you
AchieveStrength Harvard published a study in the Journal of American Medical Association showing it's beneficial to replace fish protein with plant protein. Also showed that the benefits of EPA and DHA were insignificant. Other fats are healthier. Look them up.
Siegfried Furtwängler Knappertsbusch no single food increases your risk of disease brother, its the whole lifestyle that matters, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean meats and dairy + exercise and keeping healthy bodyweight is the key
Siegfried Furtwängler Knappertsbusch and why would i replace fish with plant protein? When i can have both?
AchieveStrength That's not the key and you provide no evidence for it.
AchieveStrength Because that will lower your risk for disease. Animal protein is unhealthy compared to plant protein.
I'm not arguing for the other side because I myself am vegan, but I know that in California hunters have to use steel shotgun pellet on fish and game.
You mentioned lead intake also comes from plant foods. Why didn’t you expand on that?
I'm imagining it's because it's dismissable amounts.
ruclips.net/user/NutritionFactsOrgsearch?query=lead
Well, when vegans use guns to gather their food.
ruclips.net/video/XZ-EOg38t1o/видео.html
You should sometime make a video about your blood work results! It would be really interesting.
Listening to vegans lecture about hunting, is like a priest lecturing people on how to contain themselves around little boys.
Detailed Obscurity another debil h/lead...
I went today with my ND and we discussed many issues about health. I am not against vegans or vegetarians, but I have always been not convinced that we humans are not supposed to eat meat. Ok, so the important thing here is that my doctor told me something quite interesting for me, she told me that the sickest people she sees in her office are actually vegans. I was really impressed. She told me that she sees a lot of vegans that have serious depresion, and that she personaly has seen vegans that fixed themselves when they started consuming meat products. DONT trash my comment, this is not me talking, this is my doctor experience of over 25 years.
wren460 Aren't you the one sharing an unverifiable anecdote that carries absolutely no weight whatsoever? Seriously, why share this under a video based around scientific evidence. Maybe your story goes better under videos about unfounded conspiracies.
So, the opinions of a ND of many years have no weight whatsoever ? Observation has no weight ? Seriously ? As you might know ( or not) I can show you contradictory studies on any subject whatsoever. If you believe in Dr.Granger as if he has the last Word on everything , well, I believe I have nothing else to say
It sounds like it could be a mix of what her experience has actually been and loads of confirmation bias. On the one hand, some studies do show a slight correlation between mental health issues and vegetarianism/veganism, with a couple of reasons for this, such as people who are ill tending to choose diets they think will help them feel better, and people who are more sensitive to the suffering of others and aware of injustice in the world both being more likely to eschew eating animal foods and also be more depressed/anxious (in part because of the state of the world, if not entirely so). There is no research showing that plant-based diets increase the risk for depression, etc.; there is research showing the opposite, that plant-based diets help with various mental health issues. This suggests that these people would be worse off if they go back to eating meat, although obviously placebo effects can be powerful stuff. The correction of deficiencies could also be responsible for people feeling better from re-including meat in their diet, but other changes would have had the same effect or better (for instance, if one was low in iron, and is now getting it from red meat, one could have achieved the same thing from including or increasing consumption of lentils, and be better off for making that change instead; the lentils will supply the needed iron while being a much better, healthier food for you than red meat).
On the other hand, given this is a small difference that doctors would be unlikely to notice in their own practice (the correlation was picked up in research; we're not talking huge numbers anyone would actually be able to notice, like twice as many vegans having issues or anything like that), I'm inclined to think your doctor is speaking from a biased perspective, seeing what she wants to see (noticing the depressed vegans and discounting some of the depressed non-vegans, as well as discounting healthy vegans - which she'd be less likely to see in any case, given healthy people tend not to be seeing doctors as much). It'd be nice if doctors could be above doing this sort of thing, but sadly, many aren't. They're not always the most objective people, and they can have their own assumptions, biases, etc. that they're unwilling to let go of. Just like many doctors were loathe to acknowledge and admit that cigarettes were bad years ago, and would have insisted that their most robust, healthy patients smoke a pack a day, many are now resistant to acknowledging that animal foods aren't so great for us.
My understanding, due to work related mandatory testing is that we all generally show very low levels. Every time I have been tested it has been considered to be lower than the permissive levels. I have eaten wild game all off my life and have worked in demolition of lead paint wood, plaster, and repairs and demolition at glass plants. So are you saying testing results are not accurate, falsified or that being below the accepted levels was based on incorrect understanding of permissive lead levels.also could it merely be poor handling and care if the meat. I heard mention only of ground meat. This sounds like more of a poor processing problem than anything else. There are obvious parts you don't use. Sounds like a study that had a direction it wanted to go or testing that was done without the field knowledge needed. If you want to tell me there is lead in wounded area of meat and that can't be used..... Yes, common sense when field dressing and processing. Do you want to say you are better off processing your own meat as apposed to taking it to someone else. Yes of course. Wad cutter, hollow point, full jacket, does this change things ? Testing done on families that have been life long consumers. Long lives in my family and above average jobs. I just feel this is missing this kind of data.
Sounds like you didn't watch the last part of the video.
Bad news for hunters, as most of them start out stupid to begin with.
Eating wild games drops average IQ by ONE point? wow, not very devastating.
Great last line ! Apply to meat eaters as whole
All copper bullets for the win!
Mathieu MacAdam how do you justify your needless murder?
Frankly, for most hunters, as far as brain damage, it's too late.
Could you please make a video on wich fish to stay away from then 😄
ok, now do a video on how much wild game the typical american eats during their lifetime. not from years past but now.
Yes, lead bullets are in harvested wild game. I remember being the most famous of the family in finding the lost bullet in the animal steaks, ... and yet I have (said) 194 IQ - and the brain and nerves still function quite excellenty - thank you very much (and all those lead-paint yellow school pencils as well). And all these years of hunting from the time of flintlocks and ballistas, humanity and wildlife have continued to grow and expand their population.
It is one thing to mention the topic, but not go into all the rest of the topic ... that the majority of all lead (and mercury) pollution is now coming from Asian factories, swept across to the Americas on the jet stream, and dropped all the way from the West Coast inward as far as the Midwest states for fish eating regulations published in each State Fish and Game booklets. Lead in car gas of the previous 1900s-1970s had nothing to do with such vast increase of aerial pollution - as now. We have been lead free since then, and there is no reason for castigating the American public about lead and lead pollution - Paris Accords, Kyoto Accords, and not hold the truly lead-producers under constraints - and instead flog American-clean Heaven-land and its angelic population with even strictrer and insane pollution controls (that receive all this foreign pollution).
If you want to safeguard against heavy metals, then selenium is a known anti-heavy metal neutralizer and purger of such toxics in the body. Selenium yeast, selenium in chinese parsley/mexican parsley/cilantro sauce/coriander (all the plant and species) has some of the highest selenium for such processes. Hasn't killed off the entire Latin America population with their diet in higher pollution areas.
So because you have a 194 IQ (you don't by the way), eating lead is fine and science is worthless compared to personal anecdotes?
Man with 194 IQ wastes time lying about his IQ in RUclips comments. Seems legit.
Good that noone can shoot my food 😁🍌
So bowhunting it is, then.
or head shots.
38th comment again
whoa
I read this 38 minutes after you posted it.
That's why hunters are dumb. Now makes better sense.
The hunters not wanting to give up hunting because of lead just proves that they decreased in intelligence. lol
But but but population control, disgusting
You are the perfect reason for showing lead pollution in brain cells from chewing household leaded wall paint.
+John Lord. Led-based paint was banned in 1978.
Ha! So whats your excuse ... and it is LEAD based paint.
To be fair, the hunter can also just use lead free ammo - its out there.
I feel kinda sad for people who are still forced to rely on fishing and hunting to get enough food to survive in this polluted world when we could theoretically feed every single person on this planet with just the amount of grains we produce.
Johannes Anttila I for one enjoy hunting and fishing for my food. I'd rather do that than buy factory 'meat' in the grocery stores. Don't feel sorry for us. Our food is more 'organic' than most.
I eat very little grain. Civilizations who have relied largely on grain fail, historically speaking. Our creator tells us what he meant to be used for human food in Leviticus. Removing those foods from animals that eat carrion or act as filters (shellfish, catfish, etc..) removes many the risks of toxicity from heavy metals.
Lead shot has largely been replaced for waterfowl and upland game bird hunting with tungsten and steel. If one has lead fragment in large game he/she is a miserable shot. Generally the bullet passes through the heart and lungs and exists. Most hunters do not process/eat the damaged meat where the bullet or shot has entered.
Mush of this is old information and 'fear porn'.
BonnieBlue2A I don't remember the great flying spaghetti monster ever saying that.
led samsung Here is an article telling you why: www.commondreams.org/views/2012/05/08/we-already-grow-enough-food-10-billion-people-and-still-cant-end-hunger
I study food sciences and this is something my professor told me too at the grain technology course!
led samsung Well that's why I said theoretically. There is enough grains to feed the caloric needs of every single human being on this planet, because the efficiency of turning the grains into animal body parts and secretions is so inefficient. I didn't say the grains would reach every single people or that ghey could actually sustain themselves eating just corn, wheat, rice and a little bit of barley and sorghum. Although it would be calorically sufficient diet people would run into deficiencies in many vitamins and minerals, lysine as well as essential fatty acids if not supplemented.
Take home message is that grains are some of the most ecologically efficient energy source for humans and recycling them through animal bodies is pointless!
The basis of this video is biased. Why make a video about lead in food caused by shooting wild game when it's PLANT sources that most lead in our diets is derived from? Very few people eat wild game shot with guns.
Because more is always worse?
Tine Woodbe depends where you live. Around here it's pretty common.
losing IQ points, fuck no /I have to get rid of all the lead etc there is///and that sentence with the losing IQ points=losing earnings-that was so robot minded,materialistic as if it's the only thing that matters and that will change because of that and perception doesn't matter/ and one more thing: how would this system of "just imagine how smart you could have been " work ? how would he get more smarter?
Use a bow & arrow then?
or if you really want to be a hunter, do what the real omnivores and carnivores do. watch your prey, catch it by surprise, sink your teeth and claws in it until it dies and then rip off the flesh with your jaw strength and swallow the meat without chewing it much. or eat it alive.
We're humans Mr LloydVal. We don't have razor sharp teeth or claws. We use tools to make things happen.
CHRISTIANNWO FYI humans are herbivores, they just lied to us our entire life. pretending we're some kind of omnivorous. We are simply "smart" herbivores who can use tools and be cruel to all species including our own.
udi-netts, pretty sure we're omnivores. We've been eating meat for thousands of years.
You're thinking of gorillas; gorillas's are true herbivores. All they do is eat plants & leaves all day.
led samsung a few things, I don't have it all here now. But here is some science video
ruclips.net/video/XmXynDLkbXY/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/sXj76A9hI-o/видео.html
Uh Oh Joe Rogan
"I've been hunting for years" is the first thing you said that convinced me that you're not very smart at all. And lead is making the condition worse
...that was a quote from an article he was reading, not his own words >.>
Dylan Mayes my wording can imply I was referring to doctor Gregor but I did understand he was just echoing what many hunters say. I'm well aware the good doc does not hunt
Lol... How smart you could have been, smart enough to stop killing animals in vain?
Its OK if they are eating the animals
Des Troya no it is not! If you don't do it to survive it is NOT OK. There are other alternatives for eating animal flesh today. Would you eat your dog just for BBQ fun? Watch earthlings, cowspiracy. Did you know that pigs are smarter than dogs?
Humans have eaten animals to survive for thousands of years. They are full of vital nutrients, many hard to obtain elsewhere (Zinc and B12 come to mind). I can agree with you this much, I think people eat far too much meat, and we waste many of their parts (livers, other organs, bone marrow). In the third world much less is wasted, and more parts are eaten (and sometimes it makes for very healthy and strong people).
As for the moral argument. Most vegans think of humans as animals no? Animals eat whatever other animal they feel like eating. If you are going to condemn humans for it, also condemn the lion, condemn chimpanzees, condemn the house cat. Based on the Darwinian model we eat whatever we feel will give us an edge and long ago discovered cooking and eating certain animals works for us.
I'm all for hunters for having a low quality of life.
Except when you meet them at the voting booth.
Me never vote and me newer will. LOL
Good.
Great video as always! My mom started eating venison hunted by her boyfriend and was saying it was healthier. I'm sending her this video. I hope she listens and stops eating it.
Don't forget to mention that in fish - there is always selenium - which counteracts the heavy metals.
Level Up Kuyt what about saturated fats?
Level Up Kuyt and cholesterol too? What's wrong with it?
houndjog Dr Gregor made a video about ALS awhile ago it's interesting.
AchieveStrength Increases heart disease risk, don't forget the TMAO.
Siegfried Furtwängler Knappertsbusch lol, sardines have 1.5 gr of saturated fats per 100 gr, that's gonna increase your risk of heart disease? Omg dude, you okay or what?
The public learned about lead poisoning many years ago, but it referred to lead in paint. I did a Google search of the FDA and United States Food and Drug administration, on lead poisoning and did not find any information on bullets and game hunting. Probably because they don't care and didn't think anyone would catch this. Thanks Doc.