Tests by the CDC show that eating venison and other game can raise the amounts of lead in human bodies by 50 percent

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wild-game-deer-venison-condors-meat-lead-ammunition-ban/

• ByScott Streater,Environmental Health NewsonSeptember 28, 2009

To Dr. William Cornatzer, it was an unforgettable image, one that troubled him deeply.

An avid hunter, Cornatzer was listening to a presentation on thelead poisoningof Californiacondorswhen an x-ray of a muledeerflashed on an overhead screen. The deer had been shot in the chest with a high-powered rifle. Cornatzer was shocked that the deer’s entire carcass was riddled with dozens of tiny lead-shot fragments.

“My first thought had nothing to do with California condors; it had to do with what I had been doing as a hunter myself, and what I had been feeding our kids,” said Cornatzer, a clinical professor of medicine at theUniversity of North Dakota School…