Vegan's Almanac

Publication of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, by Carl Safina; Publication of The Vet at Noah's Ark: Stories of Survival from an Inner-City Animal Hospital, by Doug Mader and Kevin Fitzgerald; Pope Francis told young people that eating meat is part of a ‘self-destructive trend’; Summer Evening, by John Clare.

Birthday of E.B. White; Publication of Anarchism and Animal Liberation: Essays on Complementary Elements of Total Liberation, edited by Anthony Nocella, Richard White, and Erika Cudworth; Passages from Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White.

Birthday of Dr. Neil Barnard; Publication of The Open Society and Its Animals, by Janneke Vink; Publication of Animal Control, by Matt Brandstein; Quote from Hippocrates.

Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Omelet Day; Running of the Bulls at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain; A Prayer from St. Basil.

National Blueberry Day; Be A Kid Again Day; Release of Cow Documentary; Publication of Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable, by Will Potter; A Meditation, Remembering the Child’s Love of Animals.

National Koi Day; World Chocolate Day; Tell the Truth Day; Two Haikus.

World Zoonoses Day; Cure Yourself, by Maria Sabina Magdalena Garcia.

Birthday of Sylvester Graham; Birthday of Mel Broughton; Birthday of Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, aka RZA; Summer, by H. P. Nichols.

Independence From Meat Day; Fireworks; Jackfruit Day; Independence, Henry David Thoreau.

Eat Your Beans Day; Birthday of Richard D. Ryder; Birthday of Rod Coronado; Publication of The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence, by Andrew Linzey; Words from Rod Coronado.

Birthday of Kendrick Farris; Birthday of Alex Morgan; Publication of The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals, by Jenny Brown; Luck Is Not Chance, by Emily Dickinson.

National Bison Month; National Baby-Led Weaning Day; Birthday of Alex Hershaft, Carl Lewis, Pamela Anderson, and Patrik Baboumian; Words of Crowfoot.

Publication of The Terrorization of Dissent: Corporate Repression, Legal Corruption, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Jason Del Gandio; Publication of My First Vegan Book, by Krista Thompson and Kelly Johnson; Waiting for the Terrorists, by Richard O'Connell.

St. Peter’s Day; National Guy Day; Publication of How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach, by Tobias Leenaert; 1 Peter 3:8-12

National Tapioca Day; Birthday of John Wesley; Birthday of Chris DeRose; 1 Corinthians 13.

International Pineapple Day; National Onion Day; Birthday of Toby Maguire; Birthday of Ruby Roth; Pineapple, by Ishwar Gupta; Ode To The Onion, by Pablo Neruda.

United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture; Release of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret; Publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics, edited by Clair and Andrew Linzey; Torture, by Alice Walker.

World Anti-Bullfighting Day; National Catfish Day; Birthday of Ricky Gervais; Publication of Death of a Whale: The Challenge of Anti-Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights, by Captain Paul Watson; A Statement from Makah Elders.

Rabbit Week; Publication of Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction, by Matthew Calarco; A Reading from The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams.

Flamingo Day; Birthday of Yosvani Ramos; Release of Chicken Run; Publication of Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care, by Andrew Linzey; A Reading from Animal Rites, by Dr. Andrew Linzey.

World Camel Day; World Rainforest Day; Fish are Friends Not Food Week; Publication of I Will Abolish the Bow: Christianity, Personhood, and the End of Animal Exploitation, by Matthew A. King; Fish, by DH Lawrence.

Father’s Day - Great Dads of the Animal Kingdom; Only a Dad, by Edgar Guest.

American Eagle Day; First Episode of The Main Street Vegan Podcast, hosted by Victoria Moran; The Eagle, by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland; The Eagle, by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Juneteenth, World Albatross Day; Birthday of Henry Spira; A Few Stanzas from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Publication of The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision (or, Bill and Lou Must Die: A Real-Life Murder Mystery from the Green Mountains of Vermont), by Pattrice Jones; Publication of Veganza Animal Heroes Series - Liberation, by Susan Hargreaves, illustrated by Monique Martinez; A Reading from Matthew Five.

World Croc Day; Publication of Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation, by Gary Francione; The Vegan Pod’s First Episode; Publication of Yoga and Animal Ethics, by Kenneth Valpey; How Doth The Little Crocodile, by Lewis Carroll.

World Sea Turtle Day; Publication of Ninety-Five: Meeting America’s Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs, by Davida Breier (photography by Derek Goodwin); Birthday of Vegenaise; A Prayer by Carol J. Adams.

Turkey Lover’s Month; Release of Eating Animals documentary; Publication of This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You), by Ed Winters; Turkeys, by John Clare.

National Cucumber Day; Publication of Raccoon, by Daniel Heath Justice; Numbers 11:4-9.

Pigeon Appreciation Day; Birthday of Zoe Rosenberg; The Carrier Pigeon, by Victor-Marie Hugo.

National Cougar Day; International Falafel Day; And Then They Stole the Falafel, by Gideon Polya.

International Lynx Day; Birthday of Ingrid Newkirk; Publication of Just Enough: Vegan Recipes and Stories from Japan’s Buddhist Temples, by Gesshin Claire Greenwood; Prayer For Our Dear Wild Animal Friends, by Ryugen Doshin Yamada.

National Herbs and Spices Day; Birthday of Esther Ouwehand; Release of Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals; Guardian Article, “Elephants Call Each Other By Name, Study Finds; Publication of Unwanted: The Causes and Effects of America's Horse Population Crisis, by Christina Keim 1 Kings 10:10.

National Lettuce Day; National Meal Prep Day; Birthday of Natalie Portman; The End of Medicine Documentary; A Mantra For Loving Kindness.

World Oceans Day; International Day of Action for Elephants in Zoos; Birthday of Roger Fouts; The Elephant, by Rudyard Kipling.

National Animal Rights Day; Publication of Vegangelical: How Caring for Animals Can Shape Your Faith, by Sarah Withrow King; Publication of What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins, by Jonathan Balcombe; Publication of Vegan Art: A Book of Visual Protest, edited by Tommy Kane; Fish, by Brian Turner.

American Black Bear Day; International Tempeh Day; Spring, by Mary Oliver.

Presumed Birthday of Socrates; International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing; National Veggie Burger Day; Birthday of Shannon Keith; Publication of Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans, by John Marzluff; The Words Of Socrates, by Jean de La Fontaine.

Philippine Eagle Week; National Cheese Day; Release of Vegan: Everyday Stories; A Meditation for Understanding.

Birthday of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers; Birthday of Charles R. Magel; Publication of Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat, by Howard Lyman; Publication of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction, by Thom van Dooren; Proverbs 12:10.