Talk:Fur trade

Semi-protected edit request on 7 November 2021
Aboriginals Lost the french Haudenosaunee war and lost control of the fur trade in 1678 2604:3D09:1489:4100:83B:52A2:C267:38A8 (talk) 17:10, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:26, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Northern Europe
There was a fur trade, at least prior to WWII, in Scandinavia and Poland. I know because members of my family were part of it. One of my uncles bought furs for an England-based company in Norway in the late 1930s, for example. I don't know much about it or how extensive it was, but it should perhaps be mentioned here.Bill (talk) 00:13, 21 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Bill, if you can find a couple good sources and list them here, I'm happy to make the edit(s). Please ping me if you do. Netherzone (talk) 01:42, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Unfortunately, I don't know much about it. I just know things like what my uncle told me did between finishing school and the outbreak of WWII. Google has thus far not turned up much. I tried looking at the fur trade articles in Wikipedia in Norwegian, Polish, German and so forth. The Polish article briefly mentions the fur trade there and cites a book in Polish about the fur trade in Poland in the 16th-18th centuries: Irena Turnau: Skórnictwo odzieżowe w Polsce XVI-XVIII wieku. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1975. Nothing about the more recent period.Bill (talk) 02:13, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, have you considered posting something on WikiProject Poland? All the offline sources I have are on the North American fur trade. I agree that the it would be an asset to include something about Poland and Scandanavia's trade in this article. Netherzone (talk) 02:20, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

The "animals skinned alive" video was staged and yet this article is still citing PETA as if they are a reliable source.
That video of a raccoon being skinned alive was exposed as an inside job years ago, and yet this article links to PETA as if the video wasn't investigated and the perpetrators caught. I want to edit the article myself but it's protected. And citing PETA is like citing Alex Jones. I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source but I still expected better. “A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.”—Mark Twain Source: https://blog.truthaboutfur.com/skinning-fur-animals-alive-video-exposed-as-complete-fraud Also, skinning live animals would be pointless and wasteful and dangerous. Source: https://blog.truthaboutfur.com/5-reasons-animals-are-not-skinned-alive Lorentz.Effect (talk) 19:18, 13 August 2022 (UTC)