Vegan's Almanac

National Alligator Day; Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

World Otter Day; Publication of Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, by David Nibert; Sonnet: To the River Otter, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

National Grape Day; Exodus 23: 1-12. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Feast Day for St. Philip Neri; Arrest of Jake Conroy; Publication of Yoga and Veganism: The Diet of Enlightenment, by Sharon Gannon; Gayatri Mantra.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Publication of Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease, by Sherra Aguirre; Publication of Heart Disease Cookbook: Easy Plant-Based, Heart-Healthy Recipes, by Katie Reines; The Heart is the Capital, by Emily Dickinson.

National Asparagus Day; Birthday of Gary Francione; PAsk the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic, edited by Arthur Walker-Jones and Suzanna Millar; Job 12:7-10.

World Turtle and Tortoise Day; Birthday of Wayfare; Publication of Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice, edited by Lisa Kemmerer; The Tortoise and the Hare, by Aesop.

World Fish Migration Day; A Passage from Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

National Eat More Fruits and Vegetables Day; Publication of Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics, by Anna Peterson; Publication of More Than Human Rights: Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing, edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito; An excerpt from, The Call of the Wild, by Jack London.

World Bee Day; Morning Song Of The Bees, by Louisa May Alcott.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Birthday of Derick K. Grant; Airing of Becky Sandstedt’s Footage on NBC’s Nightly News: “The Down Side of Livestock Marketing”; Genesis Butler Delivered Her Ted Talk; Matthew 21:14-16.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

World Baking Day; Birthday of Brigitte Gothiere; Waifs and Strays, by Arthur Rimbaud. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

World Eel Day; The Mystery, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Endangered Species Day; Birthday of Norman Phelps; Birthday of John Salley; Birthday of Candice Hutchings - The Edgy Veg; Birthday of Carleigh Bodrug - Founder of Plant You; A Meditation.

Publication of Quick and Easy Low-Cal Vegan Comfort Food: 150 Down-Home Recipes Packed with Flavor, Not Calories, by Alicia Simpson; Publication of Anti-inflammatory Foods, by Beverly Lynn Bennett; Animal and Vegan Advocacy Summit 2025; May, by Nathaniel Parker Willis.https://www.avasummit.com/

International Chihuahua Appreciation Day; National Vinegar Month; National Salad Month; Jack and Jill, by Mother Goose.

International Hummus Day; Birthday of Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton; Birthday of Stevie Wonder; Publication of Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals, by Laura Duhan-Kaplan; Love’s In Need of Love Today, by Stevie Wonder.

International Day of Plant Health; Birthday of Niko Koffeman; Publication of Fiber Fueled, by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz; The Seedling, by Paul Laurence Dunbar.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Birthday of Roberta Kalechofsky; Birthday of Charlotte Laws; Discussion Circle for Animal Activists & Caregivers; Friendship, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Birthday of Birute Galdikas; Publication of Animal Theologians, Edited by Andrew and Clair Linzey; A quote from the introduction of Animal Theologians.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Birthday of Alexy Voevoda; Publication of Plants Saved My Life: How Going Vegan Transformed My Health, by Kelley Gilberry, CHN; Publication of The War Against Nonhuman Animals : A Non-Speciesist Understanding of Gendered Reproductive Violence, by Stacy Banwell; To Posterity, by Bertolt Brecht. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

World Donkey Day; The Legend of the Jerusalem Donkey. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Birthday of Oscar Horta; Publication of Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict, by David Nibert; Publication of Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies, by Aysha Akhtar; A thought experiment, from Oscar Horta’s book, Making a Stand for Animals. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Release of the Documentary Film, Forks Over Knives; Publication of Dix Questions sur l'Antispécisme, by Jérôme Segal; Publication of Vegan Soulicious: Plant-Based Island Cooking, by Charlise Rookwood; Jamaica Market, by Agnes Maxwell-Hall. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

The Buddha’s Birthday; Totally Chipotle Day; Publication of Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World, by Candace Savage, the {10th anniversary edition}; The Bodhisattva Vow.

International Respect For Chickens Day; A Prayer, by Carol J. Adams.

International Leopard Day; Wild Koala Day; First Episode of Viva! Vegan Podcast; This Is My Father’s World, by Maltbie Davenport Babcock.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

World Tuna Day; Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market, by Pablo Neruda.

Gardening for Wildlife Month; Release of the documentary film, Meet Your Meat; Publication of The Holocaust and the Henmaid’s Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities, by Karen Davis, PhD; Publication of Breasts: The Owner's Manual: Every Woman's Guide to Reducing Cancer Risk, Making Treatment Choices, and Optimizing Outcomes, by Dr. Kristi Funk; May Day, by Sara Teasdale.

Publication of The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth, by Martin Wikelski; Publication of A-Gong’s Table: Vegan Recipes from a Taiwanese Home, by George Lee; Veganism for Progressives on Facebook; Spring, the Sweet Spring, by Thomas Nashe.https://www.facebook.com/events/3868688330036927

Publication of Suffering, Empathy, and Ecstasy: Animal Liberation as the Furthest Reaches of Our Moral Evolution, by Jeremy Yunt; A Food for Health Manifesto by Doctor and Chef Robert Graham: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/-ANzKosTRvOIEBFAzHTvwg#/registrationMission in Action: World Week for Animals in Laboratories: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FqxReVVFSuibidZBnRoT2Q#/registrationThink of Others, by Mahmoud Darwish.

Save the Frogs Day; The Frog Pond Haiku, by Matsuo Bashō.

International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day; Birthday of Coretta Scott King; Birthday of Nick Kyrgios; First Episode of Hope For the Animals Podcast, with Hope Bohanec; The Flight of the Crows, by Emily Pauline Johnson.

National Go Birding Day; Publication of Atlas of Extinct Animals, by Radek Maly; Birds, by William Henry Davies.

World Penguin Day; Birthday of Michael Aufhauser; Publication of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, by Frans de Waal; Publication of How To Argue With Vegans: An Analysis of Anti-vegan Arguments, by Benny Malone, illustrated by Richard Watts; In Youth, I Have Known One, by Edgar Allan Poe. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Birthday of Lord Hugh Dowding; Birthday of Joanne Molinaro, aka, The Korean Vegan; Publication of Vegan Is Love, by Ruby Roth; Publication of The Animals' Freedom Fighter: A Biography of Ronnie Lee, Founder of the Animal Liberation Front, by Jon Hochschartner; On Children, by Kahlil Gibran.

International Pallas Cat Day; Film Screening of "The Jungle" followed by a talkback with director Matt Wechsler; A Daoist Poem, by Meng Haoran.https://www.mobilize.us/fww/event/763640/If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Earth Day; Birthday of Dina Zulfikar; Peter Young’s Speech at University of Wisconsin; Genesis 1:26-30.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKZbA9ErLkIf you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Tuna Rights Day; World Curlew Day; National Chickpea Day; Birthday of Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud; A Prayer, by Yunus Emre. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Lima Bean Respect Day; Publication of Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence, edited by Edward Wasserman and Thomas Zentall; The TOKYO VEGAN GOURMET FESTIVAL; Learn Public Speaking With Vegan Toastmasters!; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth. https://www.meetup.com/vegantoastmasters/events/304368621/

National Garlic Day; Announcement of The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness; Surah Al-Baqarah 2:61.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Birthday of Leslie J. Cross; Publication of The Animals' Agenda, by Marc Bekoff Ph.D. and Jessica Pierce; Launching of the Awesome Vegans With Elysabeth Alfano Podcast; Publication of The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs, ed. By Hope Bohanec; A Prayer, by Margaret Wise Brown.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

International Bat Appreciation Day; Birthday of Dr. Angie Sadeghi; Birthday of Rooney Mara; Birthday of Max La Manna; B Was A Bat. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Save the Elephants Day; National Banana Day; Release of Gunda; Africa, by Lewis Grandison Alexander.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Birthday of Leonardo Da Vinci; Birthday of Benjamin Zephaniah; Vegan Steven, by Benjamin Zephaniah.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

National Dolphin Day; The Dolphin, by Oliver Herford. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Palm Sunday; Birthday of Milo Runkle; Publication of Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals, by Gary Francione; The Donkey, by G.K. Chesterton.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

National Catch and Release Day; National Licorice Day; Publication of Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, by Will Potter; The Licorice Fields At Pontefract, by Sir John Betjeman. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Publication of Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment, by Justin Marceau; Publication of You Can Cook This!: Turn the 30 Most Commonly Wasted Foods into 135 Delicious Plant-Based Meals: A Vegan Cookbook, by Max La Manna; FOIA Friday; Plant a Garden, by Edgar Guest.https://www.youtube.com/live/zLV5TFqfJ2AIf you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].

Mahavir Jayanti; A Prayer, by Carol J. Adams.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at [email protected].