http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/18/world/asia/japan-dolphin-hunt/

This is definitely a biased article with words like "slaughter," which I don't think is quite fair. What is happening to the dolphins is terrible and bloody. There is no doubt about that. But that happens to every single animal we take from the ocean for consumption. Is it really any worse to what we do to salmon, cod, tuna, lobsters, or crabs? The fish die from asphyxiation when we pull them from the water in our nets. I've seen my own mother keep live lobsters in our fridge — imagine being kept in a fridge for a day! — and then boil them alive. Unless you want to be a vegetarian, which I'm certain some of the advocates for the dolphins are, you're going to have to face the reality of what we do to animals would be condemned in the harshest words if we did the same to humans. I had a burger today for dinner, and I'm not going to pretend that the cow I ate died in a peaceful manner and we just got the meat after it passed quietly in the fields. It was probably bludgeoned to death in the head with a hammer and its body put on a meat hook.

Is there a better way to kill the dolphins? Possibly, but I think the anger toward the fishermen is not so much how they do it but whom they're doing it to. It's more that they're dolphins and for Americans dolphins are cute. If they were fishing for angler fish or equally hideous I doubt there would be any ruckus. Yeah, dolphins are intelligent and probably have a greater sense of what is happening to them than a clam, but we eat pigs and those are very intelligent creatures, and we're mostly quiet about that. It just seems hypocritical for me to be feel upset about dolphins when we ourselves kill and eat other animals.

And now another odd article.