Time to give Arsenic the A

[Messenger]

Stu, it is the fact that it has the potential to be a bullshit excuse, which worries me - let's face it, if you were dosing your horse with an arsenic tonic and got a positive you have a ready made 'the dog ate my homework' excuse available to you.

As for people now being aware, I knew treated pine poles contained arsenic over 30 years ago simply through being a home owner and at about that same time I knew horses chewed them just through taking my daughter to Ponyland.
Without a study to determine what is the maximum level of arsenic a pole chewer can reach, the stewards have no alternative but to show common sense.

[Hermione]

Stu, it is the fact that it has the potential to be a bullshit excuse, which worries me - let's face it, if you were dosing your horse with an arsenic tonic and got a positive you have a ready made 'the dog ate my homework' excuse available to you.

As for people now being aware, I knew treated pine poles contained arsenic over 30 years ago simply through being a home owner and at about that same time I knew horses chewed them just through taking my daughter to Ponyland.
Without a study to determine what is the maximum level of arsenic a pole chewer can reach, the stewards have no alternative but to show common sense.

I wish there was a 'like' button on here to mark the sensibility of your comment. Maybe someone can do a thesis on it and maybe in a few years we may have the answer