South Park's 'Whale Wars' Parody--'Normal Like Us'

Mitchell I agree with you about the cruelty of killing dolphins. Although I don't agree with Rydizzle and some other people saying killing cows is somehow ok because they're prey?. Cows are said to be as intelligent as a 3 year old child and they have emotions just as we do. Just because people have the ability to reproduce them it doesn't mean it is less cruel to kill cows pigs etc. But I guess those people feel the need to justify their action of eating beef so they don't feel as though they are doing something contradictory. I'm Japanese and I've never eaten whale meat although I know it was more common back in the days and regarded good as high source of protein. These days you rarely come across whale meat so I doubt people my age has ever eaten it. Also let's not forget that countries like the US used to kill whales for their blubber and dumped the rest and once they no longer needed it they suddenly turned to the Japanese and Scandinavians and said it is wrong to kill them for food. If you ask me an Aussie killing kangaroos is just as bad and I do get the impression that people somehow think that killing can be justified when the animals in question are turned agricultural. So then if we were to create dolphin or large scale whale farms would it justify killing them? for food? like cows and pigs? I guess that's something to think about. By the way I'm against it all including whales dolphins cows and pigs. I think a lot of people have double standards to make their life more convenient. Mitchell regarding your comment "the mercurypoisoned dolphin meat that is being fed to their children and everyone else in Japan" where did you get this idea because I've never seen dolphin meat being sold at supermarkets and you probably watched the meat being sold in the local fishing market in the villages near where they slaughtered the dolphins but your comment gives the impression that dolphin meat is commonly consumed in Japan. Well it's not. Never seen it in restaurants nor supermarkets and I believe 99 Japanese has never come across dolphin meat. One thing I find a huge problem living in Japan is that fur is very very common in the fashion industry and the population against fur is still too small to have an impact as big as in the US or UK. If you go to Yahoo Japan shopping website there is a "Fur" category which does not exist in Yahoo UK for example. Real fur is so common in the market that few people actually think about how it gets there. So I really hope more celebrities speak up against fur and follow the path that US and UK has taken. Sorry this was a little off the topic but I just wanted to highlight a cruelty that is taking place on a bigger scale.

I think the "hypocrisy" that is pointed out was a minor point at best. Slaughtering whales and dolphins is nowhere near the same as slaughtering cows and chickens. Whales and dolphins are more predatory while cows and chickens are clearly prey. What we do to cowschickens is messed up but they will be around forever.

I think this episode although a parody was pretty informative. I think that besides the fact that the reasoning for the Japanese killing dolphins in the episode was not true it gave a decent overview of what is happening overseas. I know that I am the type of person to go look up random things I hear online but not a lot of people are like me. The "normal like us" comment for me didn't say to me that Americans are dirty meat eaters. I think that it said that factory farms are basically slaughtering viciously just like the Japanese.

I think that this episode was a wonderful idea to get the public to see what is going on but without knowing that this is a real issue no one is going to take action. People will just laugh it off and continue to watch the show for the humor and not the issues they bring up.

This episode of south park i found funny at first but then i realized that it was a cruel joke. Mass killing of whales is not a joke and is actualy happening...and its sickening.