Thread: Lead bullets and their risk to human health

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Bits of lead eating or swallowed ala kids carrying shotgun pellets in mouth and swallowing the odd one or a stray pellet from a duck will do bugger all.
Lead is relatively inert.
Breathe it in as fumes like the old school panel beaters or on a range, vastly different.
Asbestos is similar.
It's not poisonous as such (not that we eat it), but get it in your lungs and it's bad

Spot on. It's the fumes and very fine dust if you breath them. A few small particles eaten simply pass through your system and little is taken on by the body. If you eat contaminated meat daily that might change but occaoccassionally consumption is almost harmless.

It's just another excuse to attack us.