Vegan's Almanac

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.

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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.

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International Tiger Day; The Tyger, by William Blake.

National Sea Star Day; Starfish, by Mary Oliver.

National Tree Day; First Episode of The Animal Law Podcast; City Trees, by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

World Mangrove Day; World Tofu Day; Release of the documentary film, Blackfish; Whales Weep Not, by D. H. Lawrence.