The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of world market for in the early modern period furs of boreal, polar and cold temperate mammalian animals have been the most valued. Historically it had a large impact on the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America and the South Shetland and South Sandwich Islands. Today the importance of fur trade has diminished and is currently centered around fur farms and authorized wildlife hunting, but remains controversial due to the cruelty involved and conflicts with the tourism industry. Several animal rights organizations oppose the fur trade, while supporters often cite their methods as not being cruel, that the animal populations are abundant and their rights to practice a traditional lifestyle should be respected. The use of fur on some items today has been partly substituted by synthetic imitations.
Before the colonization of the Americas, Russia was a major supplier of fur-pelts to Western Europe and parts of Asia. Fur was a major Russian export as trade developed in the Early Middle Ages ( 500-1000 AD/CE ), first through the Baltic and Black Seas. The main trading destination was the German city of Leipzig.
Fur is a synonym for hair, used more in reference to non-human animals, usually mammals; particularly those with extensive body hair coverage. The term is sometimes used to refer to the body hair of an animal as a complete coat, also known as the "pelage". Fur is also used to refer to animal pelts which have been processed into leather with the hair still attached. The words fur or furry are also used, more casually, to refer to hair-like growths or formations; particularly when the subject being referred to exhibits a dense coat of fine, soft "hairs".
Animal fur, if layered, rather than grown as a single coat, may consist of short ground hair, long guard hair, and, in some cases, medium awn hair. Mammals with reduced amounts of fur are often called "naked", as in The Naked Ape, naked mole rat, and naked dogs.
An animal with commercially valuable fur is known within the fur industry as a furbearer. The use of fur as clothing and/or decoration is considered controversial by some people: most animal rights advocates object to the trapping and killing of wildlife, and to the confinement and killing of animals on fur farms.
Trade is the transfer of ownership of goods and services from one person or entity to another by getting something in exchange from the buyer. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and services. Later one side of the barter were the metals, precious metals (poles, coins), bill, paper money. Modern traders instead generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and later credit, paper money and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade between more than two traders is called multilateral trade.
Trade exists for man due to specialization and division of labor, most people concentrate on a small aspect of production, trading for other products. Trade exists between regions because different regions have a comparative advantage in the production of some tradable commodity, or because different regions' size allows for the benefits of mass production. As such, trade at market prices between locations benefits both locations.
Hey there, take a look at me
No I couldn't look no better, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh.
Oh I am a young man
Fascinated with the profile in my mirror
And that's a dangerous direction
Never ever make it with your own reflection
And I would like to apologize
But no I don't.
That would be far too hard.
It is far too hard.
Oh, it is me that holds my steering wheel
For me I have a strange appeal
And my mind's drowning on the rules I've made from self-love
And if I told you all the ways
That I have come right face to face
It would be far too hard
It is far too hard
Don't you don't you know?
I am a young man
Fascinated with my profile in my mirror
and that's a dangerous direction
Men should never make it with their own reflection
And I would like to apologize
But no, no, no!
I would like to apologize
But no I won't
Can we take your gold and silver?
Would you trade this island for beads?
How 'bout your women for horses?
Sounds like a fair trade to me
Sounds like a fair trade to me
Familiar story from around the world
It's just good business, friend
You'll never know the price of peace
Until we reach the end
Beautiful forest, clear mountain stream
I think I'll name it after me
But who are these people inhabiting for free
My "new" discovery
Fair trade
Can we take your gold and silver?
Would you trade this island for beads?
Fair trade
How 'bout your women for horses?
Sounds just like a fair trade to me
It sounds like a fair trade to me
So many people, broken native heart
Driven from your land
But it's just progress
So we pick your pocket
While we shake your hand
Bountiful farmland, white sandy beach
I think I'll name it after me
Who are these people inhabiting for free
My "new" discovery
Fair trade
Can we take your gold and silver?
Would you trade this island for beads?
Fair trade
How 'bout your women for horses?
Sounds just like a fair trade to me
Fair trade
Can we take your gold and silver?
Would you trade this island for beads?
Fair trade
How about your women for horses?
Sounds just like a fair trade to me
Fair trade
Can we take your gold and silver?
Would you trade this island for beads?
Fair trade
How 'bout your women for horses?
Sounds just like a fair trade to me
Fair trade
Fair trade
Can we take your mountains and rivers?
How 'bout I name 'em after me
Fair trade
Your arrows are no match for our bullets
I've left all the friends i know
and i'm down to skin and bones
and mind can't get me now
you catch all the signs i show
and by now we're burning slow
but we can't wait this out now
CHORUS
hang on
in the end we'll make things right
in the end we'll be just fine
because i want out
i'd give it up to get it all
i'd give it up to get it all
i'd give it up to take it all
by now it's the face you show
and i feel it in my bones that we won't make it out
you turned on all the lights you shown
and this curse is not alone
but we can't break it down now
hang on
in the end we'll be just fine
in the end we'll make things right
because i want out
i'd give it up to get it all
i'd give it up to get it all
i'd give it up to take it all
hang on
in the end we'll make things right
in the end we'll be just fine
because i want out
i'd give it up to get it all
i'd give it up to get it all