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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•12 days agowhen horses turned from a commodity to a luxury good it also resulted in a massive horse genocide. anyway, buy my AI app
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•12 days agoI 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•12 days agoThey didn’t just scale down. Literal tons of horses got slaughtered around the turn of the century and great depression.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 days agoI’d love to read more about this if you can point me in the right direction.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•11 days agoWhen Americans Ate Horse Meat - Priceonomics - https://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/
when horses turned from a commodity to a luxury good it also resulted in a massive horse genocide. anyway, buy my AI app
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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.
They didn’t just scale down. Literal tons of horses got slaughtered around the turn of the century and great depression.
I’d love to read more about this if you can point me in the right direction.
When Americans Ate Horse Meat - Priceonomics - https://priceonomics.com/when-americans-ate-horse-meat/