Vegan's Almanac

Plant Power Day; Birthday of Muni Shri Viharsh Sagar; Publication of Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence And What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves, by Sonja Yoerg; Publication of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation, by Sunaura Taylor; Release of What the Health Documentary; a Jain Prayer.

International Festival of Owls; Birthday of Marianne Thieme; Birthday of Dotsie Bausch; A Wise Old Owl, Author Unknown.

Dolphin Awareness Month; Berries and Cherries Month; Dear March - Come In, by Emily Dickinson.

Words Matter Week; National Salt Awareness Week; Publication of Farm Sanctuary, by Gene Baur; Matthew 5:13.

World Wildlife Day; Publication of The Politics of Animal Experimentation, by Dan Lyons; Publication of Christianity and the Rights of Animals, by Andrew Linzey; Publication of Voices for Animal Liberation: Inspirational Accounts by Animal Rights Activists, by Brittany Michelson; Publication of Farmed Animals on Film: A Manifesto for a New Ethic, by Stephen Marcus Finn; A Prayer by Yunus Emre.

International Rescue Cat Day; National Celery Month; Birthday of Robert Cheeke; Birthday of Nathalie Emmanuel; Quote from George Eliot.

National Pig Day; Saint David’s Day; Birthday of Conrad Beissel; Birthday of Brendan Brazier; Birthday of Daniella Monet; Birthday of Ahmad Noori; A Reading From E.B. White’s, Charlotte’s Web.

National Vegan Lipstick Day; Birthday of Rukmini Devi Arundale; She Walks In Beauty, by Lord Byron

International Polar Bear Day; National Protein Day; Publication of Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story, by Sarat Colling and Anthony Nocella; Fire and Ice, by Robert Lee Frost.

National Pistachio Day; Grapefruit Day in Japan; Birthday of Dr. William Lambe; Birthday of Erykah Badu; Publication of Animal Wise: How We Know Animals Think and Feel, by Virginia Morell; Publication of Tarsier Sings His Song: Endangered and Misunderstood Animals, by Terri Tatchell, illustrated by Ivan Sulima; Publication of Beauty of the Beasts: Rethinking Nature's Least Loved Animals, by Jo Wimpenny; Young Singer, by Langston Hughes.

Inconvenience Yourself Day; Publication of Power Foods for the Brain: An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory, by Neal Barnard, MD; Publication of On Their Own Terms: Animal Liberation for the 21st Century, by Lee Hall, foreword by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson; On Friendship, by Kahlil Gibran.

Whooping Crane Festival; Birthday of Dick Goddard; Publication of Creaturely Theology: God, Humans and Other Animals, by Celia Deane-Drummond and David Clough; A Reading from Hebrews 12.

Birthday of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi; Birthday of Brahmarishi Mohanji; Birthday of Mirco Bergamasco; Publication of Animal Rights Law by Raffael Fasel & Sean C Butler; Mantra: Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu.

National Justice for Animals Week; National Cook a Sweet Potato Day; Birthday of Willie Smits; Release of Food For Profit Documentary; Micah 6:8.

World Pangolin Day; Birthday of Sue Coe; A Prayer, by Carol J. Adams.

Birthday of Angelina Grimke; Birthday of Lucy Watson; Publication of Animal Liberation Temple Prayer Book, by Robert Ryugen Doshin Yamada; The Six Vows to Our Dear Animal Friends, by Ryugen Doshin Yamada.

Arabian Horse Day; The Horse Performs A Duā Every Morning.

Ash Wednesday; Birthday of Bernard Rollin; Creature Kind’s Ash Wednesday Liturgies.

Chinese New Year; National Random Acts of Kindness Day; Champion Crab Races Day; National Cabbage Day; The Cabbage, by Madison Julius Cawein.

World Whale Day; World Almond Day; Birthday of Gretchen Wyler; Birthday of Rip Esselstyn; The Whale, by John Donne.

World Hippopotamus Day; National Clementine Day; Birthday of Jeremy Bentham; Birthday of Matthieu Ricard; The Hippopotamus, by T.S. Eliot.

World Bonobo Day; Publication of Vystopia:the anguish of being vegan in a non-vegan world, by Clare Mann; A Folk Tale From The Congo.

National Cheddar Day; First Episode of The Brand New Vegan Podcast; Publication of How To Argue With A Meat Eater (And Win Every Time, by Ed Winters; Keep Going, by Edgar Guest.

National Plum Day; Darwin Day; Birthday of Kane Richardson; This Is Just To Say, by William Carlos Williams.

Birthday of Thomas Edison; Birthday of Dr. Brooke Goldner; Publication of Animal Rights, by Mark Rowlands; Thoughts, by Myra Viola Wilds.

World Ag Expo; World Pulses Day; Release of Pignorant film; Hope is the Thing With Feathers, by Emily Dickinson.

National Bagel and Lox Day; Birthday of J.M. Coetzee; Birthday of Alice Walker; Birthday of Steve Sapontzis; Luke 4:18-21.

PETA’s Hands Off My Breasts Super Bowl XL Campaign; Release of Punk Rock Vegan Movie; Vegan Future, by Street Justice.

Birthday of Dr. Andrew Linzey; First Episode of The Disclosure Podcast, with Ed Winters; A prayer from Animal Rites, by Andrew Linzey.

Birthday of Richard "Humanity Dick" Martin; Publication of Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism, by Kim Socha and Sarahjane Blum; Publication of Sweet Potato Soul, by Jenné Claiborne; Publication of The Plant-Based Anti-Inflammatory Cookbook, by Linda Tyler; Invictus, by William Ernest Henley.

Western Monarch Day; Publication of The Blueprint, Fur Farm List: Ending The Fur Industry, A Complete Guide For Animal Rights Activists, by Peter Young; To a Butterfly, by William Wordsworth.

National Homemade Soup Day; Birthday of Karen Davis; Birthday of Tabitha Brown; Publication of Your Body in Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health, by Dr. Neal Barnard; Beautiful Soup, by Lewis Carroll.

Feed the Birds Day; Birthday of Isa Chandra Moskowitz; The first episode of the Switch4Good Podcast; Publication of Okapi Loves His Zebra Pants, by Terri Tatchell and illustrated by Ivan Sulima; Miracles, by Walt Whitman.

Groundhog Day; Hedgehog Day; The Mower, by Philip Larkin.

February is Potato Lovers’ Month, Sweet Potato Month, and Grapefruit Month; Birthday of Ruben Albarran; Publication of Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism, by Richard D. Ryder; Publication of Free the Animals, 20th Anniversary Edition, by Ingrid Newkirk; Publication of Changing the Game, by Norman Phelps; Publication of Enter the Animal: Cross-species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality, by Teya Brooks Pribac; February Twilight, by Sara Teasdale.

International Zebra Day; Eat Your Brussels Sprouts Day; National Seed Swap Day; Birthday of Anthony Benezet; Publication of Guilty Pigs: The Weird and Wonderful History of Animal Law, by Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans; Matthew 22:37-40.

Hug a Jicama Day; Birthday of Dexter Scott King; Birthday of Heather Nicholson; A Portion of Dr. Martin Luther King’s, Letter From a Birmingham Jail.

Seeing Eye Guide Dog Anniversary; Freethinkers Day; Birthday of Isabel Lucas; Luke 4:18-19.

Rattlesnake Day; Birthday of Dr. Garth Davis; Release of Skin Trade documentary; A Portion of Snake, by D. H. Lawrence.

Birthday of James Cromwell; Birthday of Alan Cumming; Birthday of Hannah Teter; Sermons We See, by Edgar Guest.