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.

November 15, 2025
#450
Today at 7:05 AM

Adopt a Turkey Month; Birthday of V.R. Krishna Iyer; The Clans, by Richard Calmit Adams.


November 14, 2025
#449
Yesterday at 7:05 AM

National Pickle Day; Birthday of Travis Barker; My November Guest, by Robert Frost.


November 13, 2025
#448
Last Thursday at 7:05 AM

World Kindness Day; National Hasty Pudding Day; First Episode of The Exam Room Podcast; Kindness, by Edgar Guest.


November 12, 2025
#447
Last Wednesday at 7:05 AM

The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs, by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau; Publication of Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, by Matthew C. Halteman PhD; Let Joy Alone Be Remembered Now, by Thomas Moore.


November 11, 2025
#446
Last Tuesday at 7:05 AM

Release of They’re Trying to Kill Us; Let America Be America Again, by Langston Hughes.


November 10, 2025
#445
Last Monday at 7:05 AM

Birthday of Hachiko; Epitaph to a Dog, by George Gordon Byron.


November 09, 2025
#444
Last Sunday at 7:05 AM

National Split Pea Soup Week; Publication of Zen Vegan Food: Delicious Plant-based Recipes from a Zen Buddhist Monk, by Koyu Iinuma; From Unthinkable to Inevitable: Believing in a Plant-Based Food System; Nursery Rhyme, Pease Porridge Hot.

https://simple-veganista.com/split-pea-soup/

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/STx87_umQe2r1xq6byhbbA#/registration


November 08, 2025
#443
11/08/2025

Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day; First Episode of The ChickPeeps Podcast; Veganic Summit; Dinner Favors, by Arthur Macy.


November 07, 2025
#442
11/07/2025

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day; Release of Whale Wars; Founding of Impossible Foods; Publication of Bleating Hearts: the Hidden World of Animal Suffering, by Mark Hawthorne; Release of Milked documentary, Publication of Animal Ethics and Animal Law, ed by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey; Prayer by Andrew Linzey.


November 06, 2025
#441
11/06/2025

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict; Birthday of Claudine Andre; Birthday of Thandiwe Newton; War, by Witter Bynner.


November 05, 2025
#440
11/05/2025

National Chinese Takeout Day; Birthday of Bryan Adams; Sayings of the Buddha from the Lankavatara Sutra.


November 04, 2025
#439
11/04/2025

Birthday of Ursula Wolf; Publication of The Pig Who Sang to the Moon:The Emotional World of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson; Quote from E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.


November 03, 2025
#438
11/03/2025

Jellyfish Day; Birthday of Colin Kaepernick; No Enemies, by Charles Mackay.


November 02, 2025
#437
11/02/2025

Dynamic Harmlessness Day; Publication of The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, by E. P. Evans; Publication of Eating Animals, by Jonathon Safran Foer; The Drunkard and the Pig, anonymously written.


November 01, 2025
#436
11/01/2025

National Bison Day; World Vegan Day; Publication of Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights, by Bob Torres; Words from Chief Sitting Bull.


October 31, 2025
#435
10/31/2025

All Hallows Eve; Peta’s list of vegan candies; Founding of Rowdy Girl Sanctuary; Theme in Yellow, by Carl Sandburg.


October 30, 2025
#434
10/30/2025

Birthday of Elsie Shrigley; Birthday of Stephen R.L. Clark; Publication of Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women’s Voices, by Lisa Kemmerer; Snow in October, by Alice Dunbar-Nelson.


October 29, 2025
#433
10/29/2025

National Oatmeal Day; Feed the Birds Day; Publication of The Pornography of Meat, by Carol J. Adams; A Meditation, by Carol J. Adams.


October 28, 2025
#432
10/27/2025

Wild Foods Day; Birthday of Joaquin Phoenix; Luke 4:18.


October 27, 2025
#431
10/27/2025

National Black Cat Day; Publication of Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare, by Michael J. Gilmour; Publication of Developing Animal Theology: An Engagement with Leonardo Boff, by Clair Linzey; Black Cat, by Rainer Maria Rilke.


October 26, 2025
#430
10/26/2025

National Pumpkin Day; Publication of Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: From Lethal to Compassionate Conservation by Anja Heister; When the Frost is on the Punkin, by James Whitcomb Riley.


October 25, 2025
#429
10/25/2025

World Lemur Day; Hug a Sheep Day; Birthday of Dr. Michael Greger; Sheep in Winter, by John Clare.


October 24, 2025
#428
10/24/2025

Bat Appreciation Week; Freshwater Dolphin Day; International Gibbon Day; National Kangaroo Day; Animal Lovers: A Meditation.


October 23, 2025
#427
10/23/2025

Swallows Depart From San Juan Capistrano Day; International Snow Leopard Day; Publication of Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism, edited by Andrew and Clair Linzey; Swallows, by Leonora Speyer.


October 22, 2025
#426
10/22/2025

International Wombat Day; National Nut Day; Publication of Consider the Turkey, by Peter Singer; Prayer by Carol J. Adams.


October 21, 2025
#425
10/21/2025

Reptile Awareness Day; National Apple Day; After Apple Picking, by Robert Frost.


October 20, 2025
#424
10/20/2025

Birthday of Rich Roll; Publication of Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence, by Marc Bekoff; Publication of Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically, by Peter Singer; Proverbs 12:10.


October 19, 2025
#423
10/19/2025

National Wolf Awareness Week; Birthday of John Woolman; Protest, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.


October 18, 2025
#422
10/18/2025

World Okapi Day; International Sloth Day; Release of Propagandhi’s album, Potemkin City Limits; A reading from Matthew 25.


October 17, 2025
#421
10/17/2025

International Sawfish Day; National Pasta Day; Publication of Vegan Kochen fur Alle, by Bjorn Moschinski; Release of Lucent documentary; The Quality of Mercy is Not Strained, by William Shakespeare.


October 16, 2025
#420
10/16/2025

World Cat Day; World Food Day; A Prayer from Dr. Andrew Linzey.


October 15, 2025
#419
10/15/2025

Pheasant Day; The VOSD begins rescuing dogs; Publication of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death, by Susana Monso; I am the Voice of the Voiceless, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.


October 14, 2025
#418
10/14/2025

Birthday of Chloe Coscarelli; Release of The Big Year movie; The Dew and the Bird, by Alexander Posey


October 13, 2025
#417
10/13/2025

Publication of DecolonizeYour Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel; Climate Healers Moovement Mondays, Vegan Mentor Support Group; Every Day a Vegan Saves; The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost.

https://connectforanimals.com/event/1759906861626x455296771649306400

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y_zPmclWRmOdr8oB7POYvw#/registration


October 12, 2025
#416
10/12/2025

Birthday of Dick Gregory; Birthday of Martin Balluch; First Episode of the Simply Vegan Podcast; Publication of The Korean Vegan Cookbook, by Joanne Lee Molinaro; Publication of VEGANS VERSUS THE VERSES: A Bible Handbook For the Vegan Activist by Steven Lee August; Jonah 4:11.


October 11, 2025
#415
10/11/2025

Birthday of Thich Nhat Hahn; Please Call Me by My True Names, by Thich Nhat Hahn.


October 10, 2025
#414
10/10/2025

Publication of How to Care About Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small: Porphyry and Friends, Selected, Translated, and Introduced by M.D. Usher; Publication of I Hope You Fail: Ten Hater Statements Holding You Back from Getting Everything You Want, by Pinky Cole; A portion of William Blake’s poem, Auguries of Innocence.


October 09, 2025
#413
10/09/2025

Birthday of NIsha Vora; Communicating Effectively with Non-Vegans with Anita the Vegan Mindset Coach; Prayer by Carol J Adams.

https://rainbowplantlife.com/vegan-chili/#recipe

https://www.youtube.com/live/rST3UMSiRVs


October 08, 2025
#412
10/08/2025

World Octopus Day; National Salmon Day; Birthday of Pelle Strindlund; Birthday of Ali Trabizi; Robinson Jeffers’ poem, Salmon-Fishing.


October 07, 2025
#411
10/07/2025

Birthday of Myq Kaplan; Publication of Animal Liberation and Atheism: Dismantling the Procrustean Bed, by Kim Socha; The Cat and the Moon, by William Butler Yeats.