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Fucking god dammit, Americans just can't stop putting lead in food. We love it, we crave it, there is no true end to it. Just a few months ago some applesauce companies got in trouble for using lead as sweetener. This is in a nation that took over Hawaii for sugar fields and subsidizes corn syrup to such an absurd degree that we're collectively assigned diabetic at birth. But no, let's add more fucking lead. I refuse to believe there is some accidental means by which lead can reach modern food production. We've known of its dangers for so long, it'd be so easy to just not have lead around our food, but we truly can't help ourselves.
There are more guns than Americans in the US
Most Americans are not aware that shooting spreads lead all their body unless you clean it
If you bring this up, you’ll just be made fun of for being a pansy and that they’ve been shooting for fiddy years and nothings wrong with their noggin
I know indoor ranges are super unhealthy for that reason. What do you mean by "clean it" - if I go shooting outside, should I wear a mask or take colloidal silver or what?
wash your hands after touching a lead bullet? usually the surface isn't even lead tho lol
Wash your hands after cleaning or reloading the gun or wear gloves while doing so and don't put your hands near your mouth until you do. Inhaling lead dust and smoke over an extended period is the main reason gun ranges can be a problem, which seems to be could be solved with good ventilation, or failing that literally any face mask or even a rag over your mouth. The elevated lead levels seem to be mostly in employees at gun ranges although people who spend a LOT of time at indoor shooting ranges also have had similar levels. Also like, a lil lead here and there is fine, consistent and chronic exposure is where the trouble comes from. Aldo it can't be absorbed through the skin at all, it's safe to bathe in water from lead pipes. If you do ever need to drink from one run cold water for a good 30 seconds first, it's the water coating the pipes that gets all leaded up while the tap isn't in use so you can flush it out with fresh flowing water and be fine as well. Tbh, you're probably perfectly safe already.