'The Gift' by J.D. Beresford and Esme Wynne Tyson

Reviewed in The Vegetarian News (Winter 1947) See also: 'Christianity and Vegetarianism'

'Catholics and Natural Living'

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (October 1946 edition). The cited author, Rev. Aloysius Roche, wrote a major treatise on animal welfare: These Animals of Ours (Burnes, Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1939) See: Quotation

'A Better Way' by Phyllis McCoy

From an intense debate among Catholic animal welfarists which led to their society becoming increasingly vegetarian. See the Catholic Concern for Animals website and 'Reason, Religion and the Animals.' Published in The Ark no 58, August 1956. Eventually, the editor wrote God's Animals, an important study of Catholic teaching, proclamation and sensitivity towards animals which is no longer available (Review).

Quotation: Professor F.W. Newman (1873)

"Law cannot forbid cruelties in detail, if it allow indiscriminate slaughter. Hearts are hardened by custom, and thus the evil spreads." From an article entitled 'Rights of Animals' which was published in The Index (December 11, 1873 edition). The Francis William Newman Research Center have reproduced the entire article in pdf format: http://www.fwnewman.org/Library/Works/SPE/Index_12-11-73.pdf See also: photograph

'The First Step' by Count Leo Tolstoy (Chapter IX)

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (August 1950) Pages 6-8 here See also 'Leo Tolstoy: Food Reformer'

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