Yet Another Pre-packaged Item . . .

Yesterday I just had to shake my head when I saw a television commercial for another pre-packaged item that is a great idea for convenience, but another waste of pre-packaging. It was strips of all of the spices needed to make certain meals . . . We also have our share of packaging when it comes to horse care items - especially in supplements. As we wait for manufactuerers to become more eco-friendly in their packaging, we can make better choices by buying larger sizes of these things like fly sprays and grooming products, as well as containers of supplements. Even better is to buy in bulk from your local grain elevator. Most horse owners are probably not aware that you can buy 50 pound bags of Biotin for a fraction of the cost of a 5 or 10 pound tub and 30-50 pound bags of pysllium. One thing I would love to see changed are the number of dosages of horse wormer in a tube. I find it interesting when you purchase paste Bute you get several dosages in a tube, yet wormer is still one dose per tube. Having a year dose for one horse in a tube would greatly save on the number of used tubes that get thrown away . . . Something to think about . . . .