Now there’s a new Book of Genesis that focuses on animals in the Story of Creation, thanks to the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PETA used artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT to rewrite the Bible’s Book of Genesis into a modern, cruelty-free version filled with vegan teachings.
The message of Genesis is that God created every sentient being, He saw that they were good, and He gave them green for food. In the new edition, PETA includes updated ethical lessons and modern-day applications fit for the 21st century.
Animals have been respected since the beginning
inside Book: PETA’s version of the creation story, animals are referred to as “beings” rather than “animals” or “animals”—and plant fibers such as hemp and bamboo are used in place of animal skins for clothing. In PETA’s version, no one with any fashion or moral sense would wear animal skins in the 21st century.
Among other new interpretations, in Genesis chapter 22, Abraham travels to the land of Moriah and befriends a gentle lamb to show his reverence and respect for God’s creation rather than slaughtering a ram to demonstrate his faith. It has been updated because it is a form of torture like human sacrifice, which was once a reality and is now banned worldwide.
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“The Bible has long been used to justify all forms of abuse, so we used ChatGPT to make it clear that a loving God would never condone the exploitation or cruelty of animals,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a statement.
“It took God only six days to create the whole world, but we realized that it would take us years to rewrite the entire Bible, so we started with the first book.”
Abraham and Sarah adopt a dog
Another revised passage is in chapter 21, when Abraham and Sarah add to their growing family by adopting a dog named Herbie. According to the original Bible, Abraham and Sarah were 100 and 90 years old, respectively, when they conceived their son Isaac.
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“As they moved in with Herbie, Sarah and Abraham thought about the importance of adopting dogs from shelters and rescue organizations instead of buying dogs from breeders,” PETA’s version reads. “They talked about how buying a dog or cat from a breeder or pet store contributes to the companion animal overpopulation crisis, as countless dogs and cats wait in shelters for loving homes while breeders continue to produce more puppies and kittens for profit.”
PETA hopes the new, cruelty-free Story of Creation Z will appeal to Z Z, 73 percent of whom identify as animal-rights activists, and will remind readers that every animal should be treated with love, kindness and respect.
PETA draws attention to veganism
PETA is notorious for its stunts to bring more attention to animal rights and veganism. In 2022, vegetarian actor James Cromwell—of babe And legacy Reputation – Starbucks has joined PETA in demanding that it stop charging extra for plant-based milk substitutes throughout its stores.
A video released by PETA of the protest shows the actor sitting in a Manhattan Starbucks with his hands glued to the counter. In the video, Cromwell noted that Starbucks recently removed its vegan milk surcharge at more than 1,000 locations in the United Kingdom and called on the coffee giant to expand the policy to other regions, particularly the United States.
“All over the world, in Great Britain, in France, they give these things away, there’s no charge for it,” Cromwell said in the video.
“Here, there’s an overcharge. Why? Why, when tackling climate change is so important now? There’s no reason for it except greed.”
In another unique move following the outbreak of the zoonotic disease COVID-19 in 2020, PETA strategically purchased shares of several meat companies, including Tyson, Hormel, Sanderson Farms, Maple Leaf Foods, Kraft Heinz (Oscar’s parent company). Myer), and the Chinese-owned WH Group (Smithfield’s parent company).
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PETA said it will use its stockholder position to attend annual meetings, correspond with other shareholders under Securities and Exchange Commission rules and directly urge CEOs to require all slaughterhouses to produce and pack only vegan meat. “This crisis has shown that raising and killing animals in filthy factory farm conditions and slaughtering them in unregulated slaughterhouses creates breeding grounds for infectious diseases,” Newkirk said in a statement at the time.
“PETA is pushing big meat companies to shut down slaughter lines and switch to plant-based meats that never cause epidemics,” Newkirk added.
Several meat companies in which PETA now owns shares already produce plant-based meat products, including Smithfield and Hormel.
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Nicole Axworthy is news editor and cookbook author for VegNews DIY Vegan.