'The Stamper of the Skies - a Bible for Animal Lovers' by Rev Will Hayes

Some excerpts from an anthology which was published in 1933.

The unusual title of the study is taken from a poem by W.B. Yeats, 'The Indian upon God'.

The above extracts were published in The Vegetarian News (December 1936)

'Guiding Principles of Christian Vegetarianism'

Source material for a tract which was circulated among vegetarians in Britain during the early 1960's.

This particular version was published in the Winter 1964/65 edition of The Ark (No.83) - journal of the Catholic Study Circle for Animal Welfare which became Catholic Concern for Animals in 2003.

'The Saviour of the world' by Esmé Wynne-Tyson

Esmé Wynne-Tyson was an editor of the vegetarian periodical World Forum which was founded by George Bernard Shaw among others and published between 1947-1973 . She was a close personal and professional friend of Noel Coward and the mother of vegan publisher Jon Wynne-Tyson.

From The Vegetarian News (Winter 1950) See also: 'Christianity and Vegetarianism' and her Novel

'Vegetarianism and Christianity' by Professor A.H. Allsopp, B.A., M.Ed

A short treatise by the last President of the Order of the Golden Age from The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (January 1951)

See Vegetarian Society commentary and letter

Quotation: H.W. Hales (1956)

"Vegetarianism is derived not so much from anything that "is read" as from that which "is felt." What are we to obey, the senses or the spirit? With which of the five senses do we define spirituality? And yet it is the only sure guide. Vegetarianism is bound to Christianity no matter what is read. For every step towards love and goodness, spiritually felt, is a tendency towards God."

From The Vegetarian News (Winter 1956 edition)

'G.K. Chesterton & Vegetarianism' by Edgar J. Saxon

Vegetarian Society satire: the subject of which became a significant influence upon Catholic thinking during the twentieth century.

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (February 1910 edition)

Dean Inge and his vegetarian critics

Do animals reared on farms (traditional or factory) owe their entire existence to the human appetite?

The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) believed that pigs held a vested interest in pork despite himself being a prominent advocate of animals' rights. Indeed the clergyman's contention became so controversial during the 1920s and 30s, as to seduce one of the most famous advocates of vegetarianism of all time, George Bernard Shaw.

However, the underlying philosophical retort to Inge's case was frequently presented by Henry Salt, as appears to have been the case in this anonymous piece of satire which appeared in The Vegetarian News (May 1932.)