eating birch trees indirectly

I have a problem with bullets in animals that will be eaten, and it's not the anti-hunter argument you might expect. it's a selfish problem. I imagine the bullet introducing toxins into the body upon piercing the skin. hot metal chards, oil residues, powders from the gun barrel etc. and my fear applies to more than just the meat that is within a small radius of the bullet's trajectory and final resting place. that would be too simple. no, I essentially write off the whole animal as wasted because tainted blood gets pumped everywhere by a heart which continues beating long enough to send the red stuff through at least one full cycle, poisoning every tiny capillary like a polluted river. this fear is made worse when the ammunition used is buck shot, as is common with bird hunting, because there are more sources of contamination. I would prefer big game be killed with chiseled rock arrowheads, which, in addition to avoiding the problem described above, is pleasantly closer to what people have been doing for ages. but then trista makes something delicious with moose and I easily ignore what I've just written!

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I wonder if people who regularly donate blood are less likely to die from massive blood loss in an accident because their bodies are accustomed to 1. fabricating blood in response pint sized blood loss and 2. functioning with a lower than desirable volume of blood for brief periods. of course, no one can survive massive blood loss that isn't soon controlled. but maybe the emt's lifesaving window of opportunity is a minute or so longer for a donor than it is for a non-donor victim of similar body type who has sustained the same injury. when it's said that using a part of your brain makes that part stronger, like muscles and exercise, does this mean that someone who enjoys rem sleep for more hours each night than someone else will have a brain that has stronger dream parts than the other person? and if a researcher says "the parts of the brain having to do with dreams have gotten stronger!" what does "stronger" mean? do dreams become more vivid?