content: mostly agree but don't let the Jews off the hook on the fur trade.  Asians keep whale hunting and do inhumane shit to animals yes, but it was Jews who took all the spoils from the fur and whale trades.  See Aaron Lopez, East India Company, Spermaceti Trust, Gerstle  Encyclopedia.com:  Throughout the 17th century, the Jewish merchants of Poland played a main role in the overland export of hides and furs. In North America the Jews played an important role in the fur trade during the colonial period.  The sales of the American-Russian Fur Company were handled by the J.M. Oppenheim firm, London's largest fur house. Before the purchase of Alaska by the United States in 1867 the Russian firm began selling furs to independent fur traders of San Francisco(((Kohn)))ny of whom were Jews, eager to penetrate the lucrative seal islands of Alaska.