Vegan's Almanac
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.
July 02, 2025

Birthday of Kendrick Farris; Birthday of Alex Morgan; Publication of The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals, by Jenny Brown; Luck Is Not Chance, by Emily Dickinson.
July 01, 2025

National Bison Month; Birthday of Alex Hershaft, Carl Lewis, Pamela Anderson, and Patrik Baboumian; Words of Crowfoot.
June 30, 2025

Publication of The Terrorization of Dissent: Corporate Repression, Legal Corruption, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Jason Del Gandio; Animal Law Section's Presentation on "Strengths and Weaknesses of the Federal Animal Welfare Act: An In-Depth Presentation by the Top Animals Law Experts and Federal Litigatorsâ; Waiting for the Terrorists, by Richard O'Connell.
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June 29, 2025

St. Peterâs Day; Publication of How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach, by Tobias Leenaert; Farmed Animal Rights Movement at the NYC Pride Parade; I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party, by Chen Chen.
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June 28, 2025

National Tapioca Day; Birthday of John Wesley; Birthday of Chris DeRose; 1 Corinthians 13
June 27, 2025

International Pineapple Day; National Onion Day; Birthday of Toby Maguire; Birthday of Ruby Roth; Pineapple, by Ishwar Gupta; Ode To The Onion, by Pablo Neruda.
June 26, 2025

Release of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret; Publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics, edited by Clair and Andrew Linzey; What Is So Rare as a Day in June, by James Russell Lowell.
June 25, 2025

National Catfish Day; Birthday of Ricky Gervais; Publication of Death of a Whale: The Challenge of Anti-Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights, by Captain Paul Watson; A Statement from Makah Elders.
June 24, 2025

Rabbit Week; Publication of Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable, by Will Potter; A Reading from, The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams.
June 23, 2025

Birthday of Yosvani Ramos; Release of Chicken Run; Publication of Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care, by Andrew Linzey; A Reading from Animal Rites, by Dr. Andrew Linzey.
June 22, 2025

World Camel Day; World Rainforest Day; Fish are Friends Not Food Week; Publication of I Will Abolish the Bow: Christianity, Personhood, and the End of Animal Exploitation, by Matthew A. King; Fish, by DH Lawrence.
June 21, 2024

World Giraffe Day; Publication of Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, by James Bridle; Publication of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong; The Giraffe, by Oliver Herford
June 20, 2025

American Eagle Day; First Episode of The Main Street Vegan Podcast, Hosted by Victoria Moran; The Eagle, by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland; The Eagle, by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
June 19, 2025

World Albatross Day; Birthday of Henry Spira; A Few Stanzas from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
June 18, 2025

Birthday of Wayne Hsiung; Publication of The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision (or, Bill and Lou Must Die: A Real-Life Murder Mystery from the Green Mountains of Vermont), by Pattrice Jones; Publication of Veganza Animal Heroes Series - Liberation, by Susan Hargreaves, illustrated by Monique Martinez; A Reading from Matthew Five.
June 17, 2025

World Croc Day; Publication of Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation, by Gary Francione; The Vegan Podâs First Episode; How Doth The Little Crocodile, by Lewis Carroll.
June 16, 2025

World Sea Turtle Day; PNinety-Five: Meeting Americaâs Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs, by Davida Breier (photography by Derek Goodwin); Birthday of Vegenaise; A Prayer by Carol J. Adams.
June 15, 2025

Turkey Loverâs Day; Release of Eating Animals documentary; Publication of This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You), by Ed Winters; Turkeys, by John Clare.
June 14, 2025

National Cucumber Day; Publication of Raccoon, by Daniel Heath Justice; St. Louis Vegan Market; Numbers 11:4-9.
June 13, 2025

Pigeon Appreciation Day; Birthday of Zoe Rosenberg; The Carrier Pigeon, by Victor-Marie Hugo.
June 12, 2025

International Falafel Day; Publication of Ageless Vegan: The Secret to Living a Long and Healthy Plant-Based Life, by Tracye and Mary McQuirter; And Then They Stole the Falafel, by Gideon Polya.
June 11, 2025

International Lynx Day;Birthday of Ingrid Newkirk; Publication of Just Enough: Vegan Recipes and Stories from Japanâs Buddhist Temples, by Gesshin Claire Greenwood; Prayer For Our Dear Wild Animal Friends, by Ryugen Doshin Yamada.
June 10, 2025

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, âElephants Call Each Other By Name, Study Finds: 1 Kings 10:10.
June 09, 2025

National Lettuce Day; National Meal Prep Day; Birthday of Natalie Portman; A Mantra For Loving Kindness.
June 08, 2025

World Oceans Day; Birthday of Roger Fouts; Miracles, by Walt Whitman.
June 07, 2025

American Black Bear Day; Publication of Vegan Art: A Book of Visual Protest, edited by Tommy Kane; Healing Waters, a Cherokee legend.
June 06, 2025

International Tempeh Day; Birthday of David Clough; Publication of Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood, by Sam Machado, Cynthia Sousa Machado, and Steven M. Wise; The Elephant, by Rudyard Kipling.
June 05, 2025

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.
June 04, 2025

Publication of Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement, by Helena Silverstein; Release of Vegan: Everyday Stories; Animal Justice Academy Lunchtime Live; Canada, by Emily Pauline Johnson.
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June 03, 2025

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.
June 02, 2025

Birthday of Stevan Harnad; Publication of Leo Tolstoy: A Vegetarianâs Tale: Tolstoyâs Family Vegetarian Recipes Adapted For The Modern Kitchen, by S. Pavlenko; Tolstoy Quotes.
June 01, 2025

National Animal Rights Day; World Reef Awareness Day; Publication of Strategic Action for Animals: A Handbook on Movement Building, Organizing, and Activism for Animal Liberation, by Melanie Joy; Publication of Creatures of the Same God: Explorations in Animal Theology, by Andrew Linzey; Animal Law: Cases and Materials, by Bruce Wagman, Sonia Waisman, and Pamela Frasch; The Truth Teller, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
May 31, 2025

World Parrot Day; The Merchant and the Parrot, by JalÄl ad-DÄ«n Muhammad Rumi.
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May 30, 2025

Launch of Vegans Against Facism; Passage from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
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May 29, 2025

National Alligator Day; Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters.
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May 28, 2025

World Otter Day; Publication of Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, by David Nibert; Sonnet: To the River Otter, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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May 27, 2025

National Grape Day; Exodus 23: 1-12.
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May 26, 2025

Feast Day for St. Philip Neri; Arrest of Jake Conroy; Publication of Yoga and Veganism: The Diet of Enlightenment, by Sharon Gannon; Gayatri Mantra.
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May 25, 2025

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.
May 24, 2025

National Asparagus Day; Birthday of Gary Francione; PAsk the Animals: Developing a Biblical Animal Hermeneutic, edited by Arthur Walker-Jones and Suzanna Millar; Job 12:7-10.