That's true, and I would expect it will happen again, and again, and again. It's like the dog and cat food fiasco, no one wanted it happen but somewhere in the chain of supply someone obvously tried to save money and paid for it dearly. We all do things like this, myself included. Look inside my mouth, no one really wanted to harm me but I have been because it seems convenience is more important to dentists than health.

How do you know the alternative lime wasn't used? I have been around many pastures, horses and cattle, and have never known a rancher/farmer to 'spread' anything on the land excepts oats and grass seed or similar.

There may be a rare cattle guy here or there that puts stuff on his soil on a regular basis, but I think it's normally not done simply because of expense. A boarding farm needs to look good, different situation.

Must be a lot of horses in a small area if the soil is so acidic. Most farmers around here just bulldoze the areas where the horses like to hang out a lot, guess you can't get away with that on a thoroughbred boarding pasture.

It is amazing how much we all suffer so that someone somewhere can make or keep an extra few bucks. I am really wary these days in supermarkets, a lot of our food items/ingredients are coming from China, just like the dog food fillers. there is a bg deal going on with toothpaste from China in central america this past couple weeks... in China they add antifreeze to toothpaste.