At times, the strategy used by public-health campaigners may seem heavy-handed; they retort that nothing else can work against a rich adversary.
Pro-hunting campaigners say that antelope and buffalo would be the main quarry.
The campaigners knew that either way they would win. If they had got through, it would have been a triumphant breaching of the blockade.
There have been 107 convictions of pedophile clergy in Australia, but campaigners have insisted that there could be thousands of victims, as only a few cases ever go to court.
It is also likely that the atrocities will tempt Turkey's government to clamp down again on non-violent campaigners for greater Kurdish rights. That would be unwise.
The transfer of the two campaigners Thursday has ended a tense standoff in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean.
But campaigners against seal hunting are not wholly beyond reproach either.
A "historical memory" law passed last year enraged the right but was denounced by campaigners as toothless.
One dish, prized among some in Guangdong, is monkey brains scooped from a live animal, which has regularly upset animal rights campaigners in the West.
The only elephant in Barcelona zoo could die of sadness unless she is moved to a bigger enclosure with other elephants, animal rights campaigners have warned.