Norwegians would rather eat whale meat than kangaroo meat. In Australia it is the other way around. In modern industrial societies there are, in general, many taboos connected to the consumption of wild animals, whether it be deer, seal or wild birds. Every year, about 60,000 deer are killed in Britain, about 900,000 roe deer are killed in Germany and in the US state of Montana alone, there are 100,000 elk hunters. Norwegians would never dream of going fox hunting, but neither would they stop importing British products because they have different eating and hunting habits. In 1993, British Prime Minister, John Major, claimed that Norwegian minke whaling was incompatible with Norwegian membership of the European Union. Never before has anyone implied a country might be excluded from the company of the European Union on the grounds of environmental or animal welfare issues. Ultimately the only relevant environmental question concerning minke whaling is whether or not the size of the catch is within the reproductive capabilities of the stock. Peter Sandøe, leader of the Danish Ethical Council concerning Animals, says: "...unless one completely rejects that we have the right to kill animals in order to produce human essentials, and thereby choose to become vegetarian, there are no significant arguments against the Norwegian harvest of minke whales".