With all the arm waving over multiculturalism, why is it not valid here. Like I mean, you know dude everything is soooo equal!
The unhinged left believes diversity is righteous, except when it conflicts with their beliefs. Forget not too, that this “animal lover” abused and tortured five “Flippers” for money!

Dolphin slaughter brings charges from both sides

TAIJI, Japan (CNN) — Ric O’Barry sometimes dresses as a woman or wears a large surgical mask to disguise his Western identity on trips to spots overlooking the ocean.

He prowls the cliffs near Taiji, Japan, with a video camera, hoping to catch fishermen doing something that appalls him: catching dolphins.

“This here is ground zero for the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth,” says O’Barry, who trained five dolphins to play “Flipper” on the TV series of that name. “It’s absolutely barbaric, and it needs to stop.”

Offending this clown and all the diversity dummies is the best reason to persevere with “doing the dolphin.”

Fishermen hunt dolphins almost every day in Taiji, a town of about 3,000 in southwestern Japan that juts into the Pacific Ocean. Watch fishermen catch dolphins »

Locals know that they offend Western sensibilities by eating dolphins, but they say it’s a tradition hundreds of years old. And they say outsiders have no more right to tell them to stop eating dolphins than they would have to demand that Westerners stop slaughtering chickens or cows.

“I know there are many different ways of thinking in different societies, but for us who’ve been eating this for a long time … it’s an awkward thing to be criticized for,” says Kayoko Tanaka, a retired middle school teacher. “I either fry dolphin meat or turn it into a stew.”

O’Barry says the dolphins face a cruel fate.

“It takes a very long time to die. They bleed to death. And some of them are dragged in the boats with hooks while they’re still alive,” he says. “Many of them are gutted while they’re still alive.”

OK, so what’s your point?

To some puzzled people in rural Japan, the question comes down to this: What’s the difference between killing and eating a dolphin, and killing and eating a fish? Or a chicken? Or a cow? [snip]

Many Japanese consider the deer a sacred messenger from the gods, he says, but they would never suggest that people in other parts of the world stop venturing into the woods on a quest for venison.

“We don’t like to play God to say, ‘This animal is just for food, and this is not,’ ” he says. “Because we know, nation to nation, we have totally different ideas.” [snip]

Representatives of the Taiji Fishermen’s Union declined requests for an on-camera interview. So did the town’s mayor and several others. And O’Barry says he’s gotten into a few shouting matches with fishermen, who resent him and his camera.

So what does O’Barry say to their claim that he has no right to tell them to abandon a tradition that has flourished in their corner of the world for more than 400 years?

“If someone came to my hometown and told me what to do, what to eat, I’d be outraged,” he says. “But that’s not going to stop me from doing it. I mean, tradition? It used to be traditional for women not to vote. So do we keep that going because it’s traditional and cultural? Of course not.” [snip]

Answer this, If the dolphin are so smart, why do they there, producing excellent tempura?

This guy spent too much time underwater without oxygen.

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