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[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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.

[–] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago