Vegan's Almanac

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.

National Rotisserie Chicken Day; Birthday of Stevan Harnad; Publication of Leo Tolstoy: A Vegetarian’s Tale: Tolstoy’s Family Vegetarian Recipes Adapted For The Modern Kitchen, by S. Pavlenko; Tolstoy Quotes.

World Reef Awareness Day; National Olive Day; World Milk Day; The Truth Teller, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

World Parrot Day; The Merchant and the Parrot, by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi.

International Day of the Potato; Publication of An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture, by Randy Malamud; The Potato, by Joseph Stroud.

National Alligator Day; Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters.

World Hunger Day; International Burger Day; Whooping Crane Day; Publication of Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, by David Nibert; Isaiah 58:6-9.

World Otter Day; National Grape Day; Exodus 23:10-12.

Feast Day for St. Philip Neri; Birthday of Chrigel Glanzmann; Birthday of Richa Moorjani; Arrest of Jake Conroy; Publication of Yoga and Veganism: The Diet of Enlightenment, by Sharon Gannon; Gayatri Mantra.

Birthday of Cilian Murphy; 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.

Buddha’s Birthday; Birthday of Gary Francione; Publication of Ask the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic, edited by Arthur Walker-Jones and Suzanna Millar; Job 12:7-10.

World Fish Migration Day; World Turtle and Tortoise Day; A Passage from Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It.

International Day For Biological Diversity; Birthday of Maggie Q; Birthday of Novak Djokovic; A Prayer, by Carol J. Adams.

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.

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.

World Eel Day; Birthday of Dr. John McDougall; The Mystery, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

National Vegetarian Week; Birthday of Brigitte Gothiere; A Prayer For Our Dear Farmed Animal Friends, by Ryugen Doshin Yamada.

National Love a Tree Day; Birthday of Norman Phelps; Birthday of John Salley; Birthday of Candice Hutchings - The Edgy Veg; Birthday of Carleigh Bodrug - Founder of Plant You; Publication of Compassion for Animals: Readings and Prayers, edited by Andrew Linzey; Trees, by Alfred Joyce Kilmer.

Publication of What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?, by Vinciane Despret, translated by Brett Buchanan; Publication of The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships, by Matthew Calarco; May, by Nathaniel Parker Willis.

International Chihuahua Appreciation Day; National Duckling Month; 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 The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life, by Stacy Alaimo ; Love’s In Need of Love Today, by Stevie Wonder.

International Day of Plant Health; Publication of Fiber Fueled, by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz; The Seedling, by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

World Ego Awareness Day; Birthday of Roberta Kalechofsky; Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Mother’s Day; National Veal Ban Action Day; Mother o’ Mine, by Rudyard Kipling.

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.

World Donkey Day; The Legend of the Jerusalem Donkey.

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.

Release of the Documentary Film, Forks Over Knives; Publication of Dix Questions sur l'Antispécisme, by Jérôme Segal; Publication of Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism: The Limits of Imagination, by Carlo Salzani; This Is My Father’s World, by Maltbie Davenport Babcock.

Amphibian Week; 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; Publication of Solidarity with Animals: Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential, edited by Alasdair Cochrane and Mara-Daria Cojocaru; A Seed, by Willam Allingham.