"South park whale wars" is the video filmed about Japanese's culture of whaling practice and those who think that's not right about slaughtering whales and dolphins and something must be done about it. The video is quite comic. Most of the people don't know about the Japanese's culture so they don't know why Japanese slaughter the whales and dolphins. 
In this video, Japanese wearing traditional clothes killed whales and dolphins at an alarming rate not only in South Park but also in Aquarium, at dolphin show and even at an NFL game, they killed all the members of Miami Dolphins Football team with spears and no one cared about it. The kid called "Stan" join the shipping crew to stop the Japanese but the crew he joined was just a fake that wanted to get media attention by the use of the issue. Later, the kid became captain after he destroyed a Japanese ship. Finally the kid's crew got caught by Japanese President and Japanese told them that they hated whales and dolphins because the first atomic bomb was dropped on "Hiroshima" by the Americans at the end of the second war and they wanted revenge for who had done that. After the war, they got a picture who did that and that was dolphin and whale. That's why they butchered whales and dolphins. But he hinted that was wrong and if he revealed the truth, they might start a war with Americans. So he showed them another photo that the victims are chickens and cows.
Starting from that, Japanese switched their hatred to the cows and chickens. The significance of the line "at least they are normal now, like us"
at the end of the show when the Japanese started butchering cows and
chicken is that the American are impressive their idea of 'normal' in
Japanese ,they think who has same behavior with them is right.
That's not a right thing. They kill whales and dolphins and Japanese whalers actually don't give a sh** about any creatures in the ocean. But what about us? We kill chickens, cows, pigs and cows, don't we? And who think we are wrong? No one cares about it.
This was a pretty solid episode. I'm gathering that you may not be a frequent watcher of the show, so let me make sure you know that the line you've bolded was definitely intended to be ironic and poignant. What you got out of it was absolutely what every viewer was supposed to. The South Park creators are a very savvy bunch. :)
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