Vegan's Almanac

National Save the Eagles Day; The Eagle, by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

National Apricot Day; First Episode of “How To Vegan Podcast” with Kristen Pound; A Prayer by Carol J. Adams.

National Snuggle a Chicken Day; Publication of Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity , by Colleen Boggs; The Rooster, by Abu'l Qasim As'ad ibn Billita.

Birthday of Sir Lewis Hamilton; Publication of Radical Revolution: The fight for animal liberation, by Stephen Saunders; Publication of AnimalKind, by Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone; Philippians 4:8.

National Bean Day; Birthday of Murray Rose; Birthday of Derrick Morgan, Publication of What Animals Teach Us About Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature, by Beth Berkowitz; I Believe In The Sun Even When It Is Not Shining, author unknown.

National Bird Day (U.S.); Publication of Animal Liberation Front : Complete Diary Of Actions- 40+ Year Timeline Of The A.L.F., And The Militant Animal Rights Movement, by Peter Young; Birds, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Birthday of Sir Isaac Newton; Birthday of Joyce Tischler; Publication of Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Paul Waldau; Publication of Animals Are Not Ours (No, Really, They’re Not): An Evangelical Animal Liberation Theology, by Sarah Withrow King; Quote by Sir Isaac Newton.

Birthday of Greta Thunberg; Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility, by Martha C. Nussbaum; January, by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Apple and Apricot Month; Artichoke and Asparagus Month; Tubers and Dried Fruit Month; Fiber Focus Month. Western Feast Day for St. Basil; Birthday of Matt Ball; Publication of On Animals: Volume I: Systematic Theology, by David L. Clough; The North Wind Doth Blow.

Eat Black-Eyed Peas and Collard Greens Day; Publication of the following books: In the Shadow of Man, by Jane Goodall; The Dark Face of Science, by John Vyvyan; Political Theory and Animal Rights, by Andrew Linzey; Animals, Property, and the Law, by Gary Francione; Animal Theology, by Andrew Linzey; The Heretic’s Feast: A History of Vegetarianism, by Colin Spencer; The Livewire Guide to Going, Being, and Staying Veggie!, by Juliet Gellatley; Alternatives to the Harmful Use of Non Human Animals in Veterinary Medical Education, by Nedim Buyukmihci; Speciesism, by Joan Dunayer; Get Political for Animals and Win the La...

World Peace Meditation Day; A Guided Meditation From Dr. Lisa Miller.

National Bacon Day; A Prayer by Carol J Adams.

Still Need to Do Day – Sign Up For Veganuary at Veganuary.com; The Bodhisattva Vow.

Holy Innocents Day; National Short Film Day; Birthday of Elaine Hendrix; Holy Innocents, by Christina Rosetti.

International Day for Epidemic Preparedness; Birthday of DaQuan Jones; Publication of On Animals Volume II: Theological Ethics, by David Clough; Publication of Tyranny or Fraternity: The Perspective of Animal Liberation Theology, by Marco Túlio Procópio; Fear by Kahlil Gibran.

Birthday of Gaz Oakley; Publication of Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs; Winter Branches, by Margaret Widdemer.

Christmas Day; Publication of One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene, by Saskia Stucki; Release of Vegan Queen V’s single, Mother Nature’s Conversations; Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

National Consumer Rights Day; Publication of The Vegan Starter Kit: Everything You Need to Know About Plant-Based Eating, by Neal D Barnard; Winter, by Eliza Cook.

The Night of the Radishes; Birthday of Jo-Anne McArthur; A Prayer by Carol J. Adams.

Mathematics Day on the Birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan; Publication of Vegan Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Reduce Inflammation, and Live Longer―The 16:8 Way―With over 100 Plant-Powered Recipes to Keep You Fuller Longer, by Petra Bracht and Mira Flatt; The Delights of Mathematics, by Robert Fuller Murray.

Winter Solstice Day; Publication of The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments, edited by Andrew and Clair Linzey; Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost.

Holiday Survival Kit: Setting Boundaries in Conversations about the Way we Eat, our Bodies, or our Current Stage in Life, on the More Plants: A Vegan Podcast by Brownble; Nisha Vora’s Roundup of Forty Amazing Vegan Christmas recipes; Advent, by Christina Rosetti.

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Look For An Evergreen Day; Birthday of Steven M. Wise; The Evergreen, by George Pope Morris.

Birthday of Billie Eilish; Make Cookies Day; The Cookie Jar, by Edgar Guest.

National Maple Sugar Day; Publication of Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights, by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka; Publication of We All Love: A Book for Compassionate Little Vegans and Vegetarians, by Julie Hausen; Kindness to Animals, Author Unknown.

Birthday of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Birthday of William Cowherd; The Hunting of the Hare, by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Publication of The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan: Look Good, Feel Good & Do Good in 30 Days, by Jasmin Singer; Publication of Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation, by Nathan Poirier; Release of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget; Hens and Chickens, by William Lisle Bowles.

Monkey Day; Christmas Bird Count; Were I a Bird, by Edward Smyth Jones.

National Horse Day; National Cocoa Day; Council of Horses, by John Gay.

Birthday of Bob Barker; Birthday of Caldwell Esselstyn; Publication of The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health, by Thomas Campbell and T. Colin Campbell; Publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory, by Carol J. Adams; A Quote from Meister Eckhart.

Holiday Food Drive for Needy Animals Day; Publication of Diet for a New America, by John Robbins; Publication of Animal Sentience-the Other Minds Problem, by Stevan Harnad; I Dwell in Possibility, by Emily Dickinson.

Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales; International Animal Rights Day; Release of The Animal People documentary; Raven and the Whale, from the sacred stories of the Inuit peoples.

Genocide Prevention Day; International Day of Veterinarian Medicine; National Llama Day; Publication of Animal Minds and Human Morals, by Richard Sorabji; Publication of Animals and World Religions, by Lisa Kemmerer; If I Must Die, by Refaat Alareer.

National Lard Day; Birthday of Meagan Duhamel; A Meditation by Madeleine L’Engle, from Glimpses of Grace.

Birthday of Babette Davis; Publication of Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene, by Jo-Anne McArthur; Publication of Animal Law in a Nutshell, by Sonia Waisman, Pamela Frasch, and Katherine Hessler; I Heard a Bird Sing, by Oliver Herford.

National Gazpacho Day; Publication of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, by Bethany Brookshire; Ode to Tomatoes, by Pablo Neruda.

World Soil Day; Release of With My Own Eyes documentary; Publication of How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older, by Michael Greger M.D.; My Youth, by William Henry Davies.

International Cheetah Day; Birthday of Frances Power Cobbe; Birthday of J. Howard Moore; Birthday of Captain Peter Hammarstedt; A Prayer for Today.

Birthday of Daryl Hannah; Publication of Animal Gospel, by Andrew Linzey; Publication of Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World, by Jordi Casamitjana; December, by Christopher Pearce Cranch.

Passing of Lewis Gompertz; Birthday of Paul Watson; The Sea, by Barry Cornwall.

Birthday of Abu Al Ma’arri; Birthday of Akala; Publication of Inside the Animal Mind: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Animal Intelligence, by George Page; Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, by Steven M. Wise; Eating and Believing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vegetarianism and Theology, edited by David Grumett and Rachel Muers; and The Human Animal Earthling Identity: Shared Values Unifying Human Rights, Animal Rights, and Environmental Movements, by Carrie P. Freeman. The Complete Plant-Based Cookbook, by America’s Test Kitchen, and The Taco Cleanse Cookbook, by Wes Allison and Stephanie Bogdanich; I No Longer Steal From Nature, by Al-M...

National Guava Day; Birthday of Natasja Oerlemans; Birthday of Chad Ackerman; Publication of Animal Rights Law of the (Legal Almanac Series), by Margaret Jasper; November, by Ruby Archer.

International Jaguar Day; Birthday of Bronson Alcott; Psalm 104.

Fur Free Friday; Birthday of Tom Regan; Birthday of Jon Stewart; A Prayer by Carol J. Adams.

Turkey Day; Thanksgiving, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Birthday of Sarah Grimke; Birthday of Ellen G White; Birthday of Joey Carbstrong; If, by Rudyard Kipling.

Publication of REBEL VEGAN LIFE: A Plant-Based Nutrition & Beginner's Guide: How to Change Your Diet, Improve Health, Lose Weight & Build Sustainable Habits in 28 Days by Todd Sinclair; Publication of Vegan Alternatives for Leather (Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry) by Muthu and Ramchandani; A Pair of Nursery Rhymes.

National Sardines Day; Under the Sea, by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick.

Better Conversation Week; Western Feast Day for St. Clement of Alexandria; National Cashew Day; A Crown of Fruits (VI. Cashew), by Severo Sarduy.

Humane Society Anniversary Day; Cranberry Relish Day; Publication of Marrying Myself, by Christine Melanie Benson; Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish.

World Fisheries Day; Birthday of Isaac Bashevis Singer; A portion of The Slaughterer, by Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Birthday of Oli Sykes; First Episode of Ordinary Vegan Podcast; Publication of Embracing the Nonhuman: In the Gospel of Mark, by Dong Hyeon Jeong; Zoom Event: Bird Flu, Mass Killings & Veterinary Courage with Dr. Crystal Heath; Mark 1:12 and 13.

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World Anteater Day; International Men’s Day; Evolution, by John Banister Tabb.

World Antibiotics Awareness Day; First Episode of The Vegan Posse Podcast; The Lord’s Prayer (alternative translation).

Release of I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA documentary; Publication of Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights, by Karen Bradshaw; A Prayer by Carol J. Adams.

National Fast Food Day; Publication of After Meat: The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World, by Karthik Sekar; Leisure, by Amy Powell.

Adopt a Turkey Month; Birthday of V.R. Krishna Iyer; The Clans, by Richard Calmit Adams.

National Pickle Day; Birthday of Travis Barker; My November Guest, by Robert Frost.

World Kindness Day; National Hasty Pudding Day; First Episode of The Exam Room Podcast; Kindness, by Edgar Guest.

The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs, by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau; Publication of Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, by Matthew C. Halteman PhD; Let Joy Alone Be Remembered Now, by Thomas Moore.

Release of They’re Trying to Kill Us; Let America Be America Again, by Langston Hughes.

Birthday of Hachiko; Epitaph to a Dog, by George Gordon Byron.

National Split Pea Soup Week; Publication of Zen Vegan Food: Delicious Plant-based Recipes from a Zen Buddhist Monk, by Koyu Iinuma; From Unthinkable to Inevitable: Believing in a Plant-Based Food System; Nursery Rhyme, Pease Porridge Hot.

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Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day; First Episode of The ChickPeeps Podcast; Veganic Summit; Dinner Favors, by Arthur Macy.

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day; Release of Whale Wars; Founding of Impossible Foods; Publication of Bleating Hearts: the Hidden World of Animal Suffering, by Mark Hawthorne; Release of Milked documentary, Publication of Animal Ethics and Animal Law, ed by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey; Prayer by Andrew Linzey.

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict; Birthday of Claudine Andre; Birthday of Thandiwe Newton; War, by Witter Bynner.

National Chinese Takeout Day; Birthday of Bryan Adams; Sayings of the Buddha from the Lankavatara Sutra.

Birthday of Ursula Wolf; Publication of The Pig Who Sang to the Moon:The Emotional World of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson; Quote from E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.

Jellyfish Day; Birthday of Colin Kaepernick; No Enemies, by Charles Mackay.

Dynamic Harmlessness Day; Publication of The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, by E. P. Evans; Publication of Eating Animals, by Jonathon Safran Foer; The Drunkard and the Pig, anonymously written.

National Bison Day; World Vegan Day; Publication of Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, by Bob Torres; Words from Chief Sitting Bull.

All Hallows Eve; Peta’s list of vegan candies; Founding of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary; Theme in Yellow, by Carl Sandburg.

Birthday of Elsie Shrigley; Birthday of Stephen R.L. Clark; Publication of Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women’s Voices, by Lisa Kemmerer; Snow in October, by Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

National Oatmeal Day; Feed the Birds Day; Publication of The Pornography of Meat, by Carol J. Adams; A Meditation, by Carol J. Adams.

Wild Foods Day; Birthday of Joaquin Phoenix; Luke 4:18.

National Black Cat Day; Publication of Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare, by Michael J. Gilmour; Publication of Developing Animal Theology: An Engagement with Leonardo Boff, by Clair Linzey; Black Cat, by Rainer Maria Rilke.

National Pumpkin Day; Publication of Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: From Lethal to Compassionate Conservation by Anja Heister; When the Frost is on the Punkin, by James Whitcomb Riley.

World Lemur Day; Hug a Sheep Day; Birthday of Dr. Michael Greger; Sheep in Winter, by John Clare.

Bat Appreciation Week; Freshwater Dolphin Day; International Gibbon Day; National Kangaroo Day; Animal Lovers: A Meditation.

Swallows Depart From San Juan Capistrano Day; International Snow Leopard Day; Publication of Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism, edited by Andrew and Clair Linzey; Swallows, by Leonora Speyer.

International Wombat Day; National Nut Day; Publication of Consider the Turkey, by Peter Singer; Prayer by Carol J. Adams.

Reptile Awareness Day; National Apple Day; After Apple Picking, by Robert Frost.

Birthday of Rich Roll; Publication of Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence, by Marc Bekoff; Publication of Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically, by Peter Singer; Proverbs 12:10.

National Wolf Awareness Week; Birthday of John Woolman; Protest, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

World Okapi Day; International Sloth Day; Release of Propagandhi’s album, Potemkin City Limits; A reading from Matthew 25.

International Sawfish Day; National Pasta Day; Publication of Vegan Kochen fur Alle, by Bjorn Moschinski; Release of Lucent documentary; The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained, by William Shakespeare.

World Cat Day; World Food Day; A Prayer from Dr. Andrew Linzey.

Pheasant Day; The VOSD begins rescuing dogs; Publication of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death, by Susana Monso; I am the Voice of the Voiceless, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Birthday of Chloe Coscarelli; Release of The Big Year movie; The Dew and the Bird, by Alexander Posey

Publication of DecolonizeYour Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel; Climate Healers Moovement Mondays, Vegan Mentor Support Group; Every Day a Vegan Saves; The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost.

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Birthday of Dick Gregory; Birthday of Martin Balluch; First Episode of the Simply Vegan Podcast; Publication of The Korean Vegan Cookbook, by Joanne Lee Molinaro; Publication of VEGANS VERSUS THE VERSES: A Bible Handbook For the Vegan Activist by Steven Lee August; Jonah 4:11.

Birthday of Thich Nhat Hahn; Please Call Me by My True Names, by Thich Nhat Hahn.

Publication of How to Care About Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small: Porphyry and Friends, Selected, Translated, and Introduced by M.D. Usher; Publication of I Hope You Fail: Ten Hater Statements Holding You Back from Getting Everything You Want, by Pinky Cole; A portion of William Blake’s poem, Auguries of Innocence.

Birthday of NIsha Vora; Communicating Effectively with Non-Vegans with Anita the Vegan Mindset Coach; Prayer by Carol J Adams.

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World Octopus Day; National Salmon Day; Birthday of Pelle Strindlund; Birthday of Ali Trabizi; Robinson Jeffers’ poem, Salmon-Fishing.

Birthday of Myq Kaplan; Publication of Animal Liberation and Atheism: Dismantling the Procrustean Bed, by Kim Socha; The Cat and the Moon, by William Butler Yeats.

National Badger Day; Birthday of Alfoncie Austin; Publication of Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It, by Garth Davis, MD, If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking, by Emily Dickinson.

National Do Something Nice Day; Publication of The Visionary Vegan: A Guide to a Vibrant, Vegan Lifestyle, by Kristina Reslin; Leisure, by William Henry Davies.

Feast Day of St. Francis; World Animal Day; Birthday of Alicia Silverstone; Publication of For Love of Animals: Christian Ethics, Consistent Action, by Charles Camosy; Publication of Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations, by Tabitha Brown; Portion of a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi.

Birthday of Morgan Mitchell; Birthday of Ellsworth Edwin Wareham. Publication of All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings, by Gayle Boss; Publication of Happy Vegan, by Fearne Cotton; Reading from Romans 8.