A federal judge in San Diego has dismissed a lawsuit filed by PETA against SeaWorld that claimed the whales kept at the park were “enslaved.” The lawsuit sought to provide the whales constitutional protection under the 13th Amendment, but the judge ruled the amendment only applies to humans. “As ‘slavery’ and ‘involuntary servitude’ are uniquely human activities, as those terms have been historically and contemporaneously applied, there is simply no basis to construe the Thirteenth Amendment as applying to non-humans,” the judge wrote. Julie Watson, Orlando Sentinel 02/08/2012
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