Punch magazine enjoyed vegetarian ideals from the earliest days of the Vegetarian Society in Britain. Mostly secular, and not always completely scathing their take on matters occasionally touched upon religious scenarios of sorts. As with many such slants and slights, the VS saw the funny side, eventually and reprinted the above piece from
Punch as a 70th Anniversary retrospective in the February 1949 edition of their journal
The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review .