Indignant journalists shout out figures from the floor: "German hunters kill a million roe-deer a year! In addition, hundreds of thousands of them are torn to pieces on German roads!"
Next day, a big Norwegian chain store declares that as a result of the outrageous mass slaughter of roe-deer they will immediately remove all German goods from their shelves.
...These events are fictitious. But if you swap roe-deer for whale and Germany for Norway, similar things might have happened in Bonn, London or Washington.
Save the whale! Save the seal! Save the elephant! Hardly a year goes by without a choir of animal protectionists and environmentalists proclaiming that some well- known species is threatened with extinction and asking for financial contributions. But the fund raisers are not always too bothered about the truth. They put their faith in emotions rather than ecological facts. Such methods get results, and despite recessions, the organisation's coffers are full".