Speak for yourself. I don't eat dolphin out of professional respect from one apex predator to another.

I doubt most people these days would be considered apex predators. The only way I'd be an apex predator was if my prey was some sort of vegetable.

"Apex predator" is a species category, and our species is so efficient at hunting that most of us never have to be involved with any aspect of the process save the end product. If that doesn't qualify for "apex predator", what does?

Whales are delicious, too. (I had Mink Whale in Iceland. Tastes like good beef.) I expect most dolphins to taste similar.

Are you sure about that? Are you sure it isn't just because they are relatively rare and their meat doesn't taste good?

Also tradition. E.g. pigs are about equal in intelligence to dolphins and chimpanzees.

Things might change if we find out they are made of bacon.

Mink Whales are delicious. (Just out of ignorance, I would assume dolphins probably taste similar-ish?)

I've only found a few posts that describe the taste of dolphin. This entry (https://www.wideislandview.com/2010/03/28/bon-appetit-what-i...) described it as tasting like liver with a beefy texture. That doesn't sound terribly appetizing to my personal taste.

I'm willing to bet if they tasted half as good as octopus they would already be extinct.

We do eat dolphin. Mahi mahi type of dolphin, I buy it at Costco: it is good.

Spoiler: Costco doesn't sell dolphin.

for clarity, though sometimes called a "dolphin", mahi mahi is a fish, not in the Mammalia class, like an actual Dolphin... so they are quite different.

I've seen it labeled "dolphin". I asked the seller if it was really dolphin, and he said yes, so I bought it. It tasted suspiciously like fish. :-(

It's a dolphinfish (actually quite an ugly fish and visually very distinct from a mammalian dolphin).