[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Column supporting California lead ammo ban

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ban lead ammo, Gov. Brown: It's good for all California

By Carla Hall
Los Angeles Times
September 23, 2013

A bill that would ban the use of lead ammunition by all hunters  
throughout California awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. There's no  
question that he should sign AB 711 into law. It’s smart, it's  
measured and it protects animals and people from potential lead  
poisoning from animal meat.

Let’s start with the most compelling reason to do this: Lead is toxic  
to every living thing -- humans, other mammals, birds.

A consensus statement signed by 30 leading researchers and published  
in the journal Environmental Health and Perspectives says "lead-based  
ammunition is likely the greatest largely unregulated source of lead  
that is knowingly discharged into the environment in the United States."

There is already a federal ban on the use of lead ammunition for  
hunting waterfowl. And since 2008, the use of lead ammunition has  
been banned in the range of the California condor. Of course, no one  
is allowed to hunt condors. But condors scavenge the carcasses of  
dead animals, including those that have been hunted. If those animals  
were shot with lead ammunition, then the condors end up ingesting  
lead-tainted flesh.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-lead-out-hunting-ammo- 
bill20130920,0,4724459.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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