Facing the dark side of globalization: Rotten apples or banana peels?

Are they just “rotten apples”? Some observers and political commentators, even some opinion makers, for years discussed the global predators threat with the obvious reasoning that they are just a bunch of rotten apples.
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Facts have demonstrated that global predators are not just rotten apples – rather their role is that of banana peels.

UNDCP Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, May 2000