Vegan's Almanac

Adopt a Less-Adoptable Pet Week; Publication of Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology, edited by Stephen D. Moore; a reading from Jacques Derrida’s, L'animal que donc je suis, The Animal That Therefore I am.

Farmed Animal Awareness Week; Release of the End of Meat documentary; The Triangle VegFest; a meditation for the well-being of the world. https://vegfestexpos.com/triangle-vegfest-137/

National Peanut Day; Feast Day of St. John Chrysostom; Birthday of Mary Midgley; Birthday of Stella McCartney; Prayer by Albert Schweitzer.

World Dolphin Day; Publication of, The Alzheimer’s Solution: A Breakthrough Program to Prevent and Reverse the Symptoms of Cognitive Decline at Every Age, by Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai; Publication of How to End Injustice Everywhere: Understanding the Common Denominator Driving All Injustices, to Create a Better World for Humans, Animals, and the Planet, by Melanie Joy PhD The Dolphin, by Oliver Herford.

Birthday of Moby; Effective Animal Researchers Network of Africa; Conference for Animal Rights in Europe; a portion of William Wordsworth's poem, The Kitten and Falling Leaves. https://luma.com/wnbz7lnhhttps://www.facebook.com/events/954924373330530

Feast Day of St. Nicholas of Tolentino; Vegan Theology: For the Least of These Podcast published their first episode; Publication of Love the Foods That Love You Back, by Cathy Katin-Grazzini;; Isaiah 11:6-9

Birthday of Leo Tolstoy: Birthday of Sam Carter; Reading from Leo Tolstoy’s, Esarhaddon, King of Assyria

Birthday of Andrew Tyler; Publication of Animal Camp: Lessons in Love and Hope from Rescued Farm Animals, by Kathy Stevens; Release of Slay: The Film That Gets Under Fashion’s Skin; The Lamb, by William Blake

National Acorn Squash Day; National Salami Day; Birthday of Chrissie Hynde; A Red Man’s Thoughts, by Tso-le-oh-woh.

International Vulture Awareness Day; National Hummingbird Day; Birthday of Marc Bekoff; Publication of Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence, by Nathan Emery; The Humming-Bird, by Emily Dickinson.

Publication of The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World, by David Boyd; Publication of Fellow Creatures, by Christine Korsgaard; Publication of, Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?, by Gary Francione; Meditation for peace and freedom of all creatures

National Wildlife Day; Release of My Octopus Teacher documentary; Prayer by Margaret Wise Brown, Dear Father.

National Mushroom Month; The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants, by Emily Dickinson.

Birthday of Donald Watson; Birthday of Cleveland Amory; Birthday of Dr. Melanie Joy; Poem by Rachel Lyman Field, Something Told the Wild Geese

International Primate’s Day; B-day of Asa Keisar; Publication of Meatonomics; Publication of The A.L.F. Strikes Again. Torah reading, Gen. 1:26-31

National Zoo Awareness Day; The Panther, by Rainer Maria Rilke.

International Whale Shark Day; Birthday of Mary Shelley; Birthday of Sylvia Earle; A quote from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.

Individual Rights Day; Liberty, by James Whitcomb Riley.

Birthday of Jennifer Coolidge; Publication of “Animal Ethics and Behavioral Science: An Overdue Discussion,” in BioScience Journal; Sonnet: To Science, by Edgar Allan Poe.

National Peach Day; Birthday of Tony Kanal; Peach, by D. H. Lawrence.

World Painted Dog Day; Amy Soranno Gave Her Statement; A Portion of Amy Soranno’s Statement.https://excelsior4.org/amystatement

National Coconut Week; Birthday of Marti Kheel; Publication of Companion Animal Ethics, by Peter Sandøe, Sandra Corr, and Clare Palmer; Vendor of Green Coconuts, by Muna Lee.

William Wilberforce Day; Birthday of Antoine Goetschel; A Reading from, “Abolition Speech,” by William Wilberforce.

Publication of The Thirty-Day Vegan Challenge, by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau; Publication of Vegan Ethics: AMORE—Five Reasons to Choose Vegan, by Lisa Kemmerer; Publication of Be a Plant Based Woman Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious: A Cookbook, by Jane and Ann Esselstyn; For Fear, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

World Plant Milk Day; The Pasture, by Robert Frost.

International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism; PETA was Incorporated; A Divine Image, by William Blake.

National Bacon Lovers’ Day; A Song in Summer, by Sophie Jewett.

World Orangutan Day; National Potato Day; Birthday of Alex Pacheco; Birthday of Gary Yourofsky; The Potato, by Lillian E. Curtis.

Never Give Up Day; Birthday of Madeleine Petsch; Keep Going, by Edgar Guest.

World Eggplant Day; Publication of Animal Farm, by George Orwell; A Reading from The Animal Farm, by George Orwell.

International Homeless Animals Day; St. Roch’s Day; Birthday of James Cameron; Birthday of Evanna Lynch; Stray Cat, by Francis Witham, from All-Creatures.org.

Publication of Animal Ethics for Veterinarians, edited by Clair and Andrew Linzey; The International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine, hosted by PCRM; A Prayer, by Carol J. Adams.

World Lizard Day; The Lizard, by Edwin Markham.

International Wolf Day; A Night with a Wolf, by Bayard Taylor.

World Elephant Day; The Blind Men and the Elephant, by John Godfrey Saxe.

National Fufu Day; Publication of Adventures of a Pangopup, by Terri Tatchell; There Was a Child Went Forth Every Day by Walt Whitman.

World Lion Day; Melon Day; Publication of Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows, by Peta Tait; The Lion Going To War, by Jean de La Fontaine.

National Book Lovers Day; There is no Frigate Like a Book, by Emily Dickinson.

Tarantula Appreciation Day; Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day; Neighbours, by Rudyard Kipling.

Birthday of Roger Yates; Birthday of Bruce Friedrich; August, by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Farmworker Appreciation Day; Saturday on the Farm, by Edwin C. Ranck.

National Oyster Day; National Couscous Day; A Prayer for Breaking One’s Fast.

International Clouded Leopard Day; Birthday of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Birthday of Wayne Pacelle; Release of the film, Babe; To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

National Watermelon Day; Birthday of Tobias Leenaert; Wortermelon Time, by James Whitcomb Riley.

International Golden Lion Tamarin Day; Birthday of Dr. Gemma Newman; Liz White became Leader of the Animal Protection Party in Canada; I No Longer Steal From Nature, by Al-Ma’arri.

Release of the Documentary Film, Land of Hope and Glory; Publication of Inside Animal Hearts and Minds: Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion, by Belinda Recio; Publication of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Melanie Joy PhD; Publication of Impersonating Animals: Rhetoric, Ecofeminism and Animals Rights Law, by S. Marek Muller; August, by Lizette Woodworth Reese.

National Avocado Day; Problems With Hurricanes, by Victor Hernández Cruz.

National Whistleblower Day; Birthday of Finneas Baird O'Connell; Webinar - Roadmap Towards Phasing Out Animal Testing: Next Steps for Humane Science; Truth, by Victor Hugo.​​https://www.facebook.com/events/1078788007539978/

International Tiger Day; The Tyger, by William Blake.

National Sea Star Day; Starfish, by Mary Oliver.