Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 01/12/2024 20:40, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 10:42:05 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

The only poison in them was lead pellets and you spit those out.

 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/toxic-montana-lakes-kills-
hundreds-and-maybe-thousands-snow-geese-180961356/
 You wouldn't want to dine on one of those geese.

I think the fact that they were dead floating on a lake might be a clue.
In London a woman was seriously injured by a dead duck falling on her head
I was standing by my car one day when a pigeons fell out of the sky. It wasn't dead, but when I came back it had died.
One tends to avoid eating such.
Rabbits that are dying from myxomatosis happen in some years, and apparently the meat is edible, but not much eats it
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