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Besides the issue with horse excrement, other issues occurred (Hayden, 2016):

Dead horses often clogged city streets;
In New York City in 1880, 15,000 horses died on the streets, or 41 dead horses a day (which had to be removed);
Some place to stable the 100,000+ horses that operated within New York, and food to feed them;
On a per capita basis, 19th century horse-drawn vehicle accident rates were similar to those of the automobile in the 20th century.

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fair enough. They do have an easy solution for horse shit, they’re basically called shit bags.

  As far as dead horses, well I’m not exactly sure what to do with those, but then again I’m not sure what to do with all the dead/totalled vehicles out there either.

  Out in the country, we’d just haul dead horses to ‘bone hill’, as they called it. Hey, it’s no worse than a cemetery, except the exposed carcasses stinking up the area, but bone hill was well away from anyone’s house.

  Speaking of wasted land, why do humans like to collect dead bodies and waste land space?

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