Although I'm an avid KOS reader, this is my first diary. After reading about the connection between eating game and accumulating brain-deadening lead in one's body, my first thought was that this information--and warnings to pregnant women and to children not to eat game--might slow down the hunters whose shots destroy the peace in the preserve across from my Wisconsin home. My second thought was of Palin's family, who claim that moose meat fills their freezers and is a main component of their diet all year long, Palin's mother probably passed on some lead to Sarah, as she has passed it on to her five children, and much more must have accumulated in their systems over the years. I think this explains a lot.
A few days ago there was a short article in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE giving a warning to those who eat game that has been shot with a lead bullet. It seems that the lead from the bullet leaches into the animal's meat and from there takes up residence in the bodies of all who eat it. Not a very satisfying form of revenge for the animal, or one I think it would choose, but I suppose better than nothing.
I'm sure most of you have heard that eating lead can make a person stupid. The TRIBUNE article says that women and small children should avoid game altogether but that the occasional adult portion would probably not cause harm. I don't know about anybody else, but eating something that might make me even a teensy bit stupider is not something I consider an option.
When I read this story, my first reaction was, "Bingo!" What notorious family recently in the news eats moose and other game regularly, from cradle to grave? Actually, that should probably be from "womb to grave. "And who are the other people most devoted to hunting and eating game and in what red states do they live? Now I think I understand a lot of things I found incomprehensible before.
There is the possibility that if hunters realize that they are damaging their brains by eating lead, they might stop doing that and eventually begin to learn more and become more logical. Alas, it takes a fully functioning brain to take in new information, process it, and act rationally on it.