Vegan's Almanac

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By: Sarah Hale

The Vegan's Almanac is a five-minute daily show highlighting some good news in the world of veganism. And it will end with a moment of beauty, a prayer, a poem, a meditation, a hymn, something that will inspire you each day with the hope of a nonviolent world.

April 28, 2026
#654
Today at 6:01 AM

Save the Frogs Day; The Frog Pond Haiku, by Matsuo Bashō.


April 27, 2026
#653
Yesterday at 6:01 AM

International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day; World Tapir Day; International Hyena Day; Birthday of Coretta Scott King; The Flight of the Crows, by Emily Pauline Johnson.


April 26, 2026
#652
Last Sunday at 6:01 AM

Publication of Atlas of Extinct Animals, by Radek Maly; Presentation by Professor John Sanbonmatsu: The Omnivore's Deception: Veganism in Defense of Terrestrial Life; The Animals are Leaving, by Charles Harper Webb.


April 25, 2026
#651
Last Saturday at 6:01 AM

World Penguin Day; Birthday of Michael Aufhauser; Publication of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, by Frans de Waal; Publication of How To Argue With Vegans: An Analysis of Anti-vegan Arguments, by Benny Malone, illustrated by Richard Watts; In Youth, I Have Known One, by Edgar Allan Poe.


April 24, 2026
#650
Last Friday at 6:01 AM

World Day for Animals in Laboratories; Birthday of Lord Hugh Dowding; Birthday of Joanne Molinaro, aka, The Korean Vegan; Publication of Vegan Is Love, by Ruby Roth; Publication of The Animals' Freedom Fighter: A Biography of Ronnie Lee, Founder of the Animal Liberation Front, by Jon Hochschartner; On Children, by Kahlil Gibran.


April 23, 2026
#649
Last Thursday at 6:01 AM

International Pallas Cat Day; A Daoist Poem, by Meng Haoran.


April 22, 2026
#648
Last Wednesday at 6:01 AM

Earth Day; Birthday of Dina Zulfikar; Peter Young’s Speech at University of Wisconsin; Genesis 1:26-30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKZbA9ErLk


April 21, 2026
#647
04/21/2026

Tuna Rights Day; World Curlew Day; National Chickpea Day; Birthday of Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud; A Meditation.


April 20, 2026
#646
04/20/2026

Animal Cruelty and Human Violence Awareness Week; Lima Bean Respect Day; Publication of Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence, edited by Edward Wasserman and Thomas Zentall; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth.


April 19, 2026
#645
04/19/2026

National Garlic Day; Mahavir Jayanti; Announcement of The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness; Surah Al-Baqarah 2:61.


April 18, 2026
#644
04/18/2026

Birthday of Leslie J. Cross; Publication of The Animals' Agenda, by Marc Bekoff Ph.D. and Jessica Pierce; Launching of the Awesome Vegans With Elysabeth Alfano Podcast; Publication of The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs, ed. By Hope Bohanec; A Prayer, by Margaret Wise Brown.


April 17, 2026
#643
04/17/2026

International Bat Appreciation Day; Birthday of Dr. Angie Sadeghi; Birthday of Rooney Mara; Birthday of Max La Manna; B Was A Bat.


April 16, 2026
#642
04/16/2026

Save the Elephants Day; Birthday of Sadie Sink; Release of Gunda; Psalm 8:3-9.


April 15, 2026
#641
04/15/2026

National Banana Day; Birthday of Leonardo Da Vinci; Birthday of Benjamin Zephaniah; Vegan Steven, by Benjamin Zephaniah.


April 14, 2026
#640
04/14/2026

National Dolphin Day; Publication of Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace, by Carl Safina; The Dolphin, by Oliver Herford.


April 13, 2026
#639
04/13/2026

Birthday of Alan Clark; Birthday of Milo Runkle; Publication of Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals, by Gary Francione; April, by Sara Teasdale.


April 12, 2026
#638
04/12/2026

Hamster Day; National Licorice Day; Publication of Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, by Will Potter; The Licorice Fields At Pontefract, by Sir John Betjeman.


April 11, 2026
#637
04/11/2026

National Catch and Release Day; Publication of Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment, by Justin Marceau; Fish, by Elizabeth Bishop.


April 10, 2026
#636
04/10/2026

National Farmed Animals Day; Birthday of Daisy Ridley; Humanity, by William Wordsworth.


April 09, 2026
#635
04/09/2026

Jumbo Day; A Prayer, by Saengduean Lek Chailert.


April 08, 2026
#634
04/08/2026

National Dog Fighting Awareness Day; National Zoo Lovers’ Day; Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human, by Elizabeth MeLampy; Captivity, by Amy Levy.


April 07, 2026
#633
04/07/2026

International Beaver Day; Publication of In Search of the Wild Tofurky: How a Business Misfit Pioneered Plant-Based Foods Before They Were Cool, by Seth Tibbott; Publication of The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry, edited by Ashley Capps and Allison Titus; Over in the Meadow.


April 06, 2026
#632
04/06/2026

Fresh Tomato Day; Birthday of Mariann Sullivan; Birthday of Regan Russell; An Early Martyr, by William Carlos Williams.


April 05, 2026
#631
04/05/2026

Publication of The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, by Wayne Pacelle; Publication of The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, by Sy Montgomery; Release of the documentary film, Eating You Alive; A Prayer by Carol J. Adams.


April 04, 2026
#630
04/04/2026

World Rat Day; International Carrot Day; The City Rat And The Country Rat, by Jean de La Fontaine.


April 03, 2026
#629
04/03/2026

World Aquatic Animal Day; Birthday of Jane Goodall; Release of the documentary film, The Smell of Money; Psalm 42.


April 02, 2026
#628
04/02/2026

First Episode of Plantstrong Podcast, Hosted by Rip Esselstyn; Publication of Plant You Scrappy Cooking: 140+ Plant-Based Zero-Waste Recipes That Are Good for You, Your Wallet, and the Planet, by Carleigh Bodrug; Publication of Sub-Human: A 21st-Century Ethic; on Animals, Collective Liberation, and Us All, by Emma Hakansson; In April, by Rainer Maria Rilke.


April 01, 2026
#627
04/01/2026

International Bird Day; Be Kind to Spiders Week; National Sourdough Bread Day; Publication of The Inner World of Farmed Animals: Their Amazing Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Capacities, by Amy Hatkoff; Publication of The World Peace Diet (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony, by Will Tuttle; Publication of Oppressive Liberation: Sexism in Animal Activism, by Lisa Kemmerer; Home, by Jarod K. Anderson.


March 31, 2026
#626
03/31/2026

National Farm Workers Day; Birthday of Alasdair Cochrane; Publication of The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness, by Doug Lisle and Alan Goldhamer; The Farmer, by Amelia Barr.


March 30, 2026
#625
03/30/2026

Birthday of Donna D’Errico; Birthday of Matthew Pritchard; Publication of The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, edited by Laura Wright; Publication of When Animals Rescue: Amazing True Stories about Heroic and Helpful Creatures, by Belinda Recio; Launch of TV Series, Evolving Vegan; A Prayer In Spring, by Robert Frost.


March 29, 2026
#624
03/29/2026

Palm Sunday; Release of the documentary film, Dominion; Hymn of Pity for Broken Birds and Beasts, by M. Frida Hartley.


March 28, 2026
#623
03/28/2026

Birthday of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Publication of SALT: A Confessional Animal Liberation Narrative, by Coyote Jacobs; Publication of Plant-Powered Protein: Nutrition Essentials and Dietary Guidelines for All Ages, by Brenda Davis, Vesanto Melina, and Cory Davis; March, by Madison Julius Cawein.


March 27, 2026
#622
03/27/2026

Birthday of Romesh Ranganathan; Publication of the first edition of Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism, by Michael Huemer; Joshua Katcher Interviewed on Main Street Vegan; March, by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard.


March 26, 2026
#621
03/26/2026

National Spinach Day; Bloomsbury Lecture: Carol J Adams on "The Sexual Politics of Meat in Authoritarian Times;" A Reading from, Great Precepts of the Highest Ranks.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gb2528lTTkKPWgUQkQpjIA#/registration


March 25, 2026
#620
03/25/2026

Manatee Appreciation Day; Whole Grain Sampling Day; Publication of Tongue-Tied: Breaking the Language Barrier to Animal Liberation, by Hanh Nguyen; Bhagavad Gita 2: 49.


March 24, 2026
#619
03/24/2026

Release of the documentary film, Seaspiracy; Birthday of Jessica Chastain; Publication of Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, by John Hargrove and Howard Chua-Eoan; Prayer for our Dear Aquatic Animal Friends, by Ryugen Doshin Yamada.


March 23, 2026
#618
03/23/2026

National Coyote Day; Birthday of Josh Tetrick, Founder of Eat Just, Inc.; Coyote, by Bret Harte.


March 22, 2026
#617
03/22/2026

International Seal Day; National Broccoli Day; Birthday of Baroness Muriel Dowding; Founding of PETA; The White Seal, by Rudyard Kipling.

Dr. Michael Gregor‘s website, nutritionfacts.org

Recipe: https://www.loveandlemons.com/vegan-broccoli-soup/


March 21, 2026
#616
03/21/2026

Birthday of Victoria Moran; Birthday of Sunaura Taylor; Publication of The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice 2nd Edition, by Tom Beauchamp, et al.; Publication of How Animals Grieve, by Barbara J. King; A Moment to Imagine.


March 20, 2026
#615
03/20/2026

World Sparrow Day; World Frog Day; Great American Meatout Day; Birthday of Fred Rogers; Matthew 10:29.