Lead toxicity and the hunters

Wild birds and wild animals
Shot guns everywhere
The use of lead is terrible
It proves that we don’t care
Fired into the sky all over
Where ever the bullets fall
Or enter animal bodies
They contaminate as a rule

Uptake is a certainty
In the soil and the water where
Serious toxicity happens
It should begin to scare
The living daylights out of us
We should remember we
Shooting lead around
Is dangerous actually

How they get away with it
A mis reckoning for sure
It’s arrogance and it’s ignorance
Hunters at their core
Clearly they misjudge their use
Their gung ho attitude
With jaundiced eyes they carry on
Their bigotry is crude

The EU banned in wetlands
Since February this year
On certain edible ducks and geese
Hens and coots I hear
It’s banned but hunters do use it
Their ignorance startles me
Fallible and wrong-Headed
Or just acting foolishly

Lead is toxic for hundreds of years
They could be using steel
They are environmentalists
And I don’t believe that they feel
The importance of the shared environment
Affected by
All the shot the hunters send
Up into our sky

Deer shot through with lead are eaten
Partridge Grouse Marsh Harrier they
Butchery doesn’t remove the fragments
Carrion anywhere might lay
Soil Biota will take up
And Raptors and the like
We prejudge and our ignorance
Discredits any spike

I bullet weighing 2.6 grams
In 51000 gallons of water
Equals 15 parts per billion
The legal limit for drinking water
Imagine every shooter
And every shot that’s fired
Not every target is retrieved
You would have to be hard wired

To believe the threats are not serious
To a sage the rage should be
Worrying to say the least
Discounting lunacy
There are children in the forests
Like thunderbolts that fall
Not everybody hears them
Or sees them as a rule

Few are anticipating
A foreboding no one sees
Very few are far-sighted
Or prophetic seems to me
So many predictions
Science even says
There are many submissions
And Perhaps a few more prayers