Once upon a time, in a country that didn’t run itself, a horse supplement company invented a cure for laminitis.
This cure, let’s call it LamiSafe, was like the holy grail of horse-care products because when administered to ponies who previously went lame on lush summer grass, LamiSafe prevented lameness and the pony was suddenly once again able to graze safely.

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