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Before the Cart...? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

when horses turned from a commodity to a luxury good it also resulted in a massive horse genocide. anyway, buy my AI app

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I see what you're going for re: automation, but calling this a genocide seems weird to me. Then scaling down cattle farming would also be genocide. There's no horse culture that got eradicated, just less breeding.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

They didn't just scale down. Literal tons of horses got slaughtered around the turn of the century and great depression.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

There was also the two world wars to consider in terms of horse deaths. Of course those horses died for a noble cause: helping humans slaughter each other in even larger numbers.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I’d love to read more about this if you can point me in the right direction.

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