Vegan's Almanac
Episodes
September 01, 2025
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Primate’s Day; B-day of Asa Keisar; Publication of Meatonomics; Publication of The A.L.F. Strikes Again. Torah reading, Gen. 1:26-31
August 31, 2025
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Zoo Awareness Day; The Panther, by Rainer Maria Rilke.
August 30, 2025
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Whale Shark Day; Birthday of Mary Shelley; Birthday of Sylvia Earle; A quote from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.
August 29, 2025
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Individual Rights Day; Liberty, by James Whitcomb Riley.
August 28, 2025
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Jennifer Coolidge; Publication of “Animal Ethics and Behavioral Science: An Overdue Discussion,” in BioScience Journal; Sonnet: To Sci...
August 27, 2025
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Peach Day; Birthday of Tony Kanal; Peach, by D. H. Lawrence.
August 26, 2025
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Painted Dog Day; Amy Soranno Gave Her Statement; A Portion of Amy Soranno’s Statement.https://excelsior4.org/amystatement
August 25, 2025
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Coconut Week; Birthday of Marti Kheel; Publication of Companion Animal Ethics, by Peter Sandøe, Sandra Corr, and Clare Palmer; Vendor of Gre...
August 24, 2025
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
William Wilberforce Day; Birthday of Antoine Goetschel; A Reading from, “Abolition Speech,” by William Wilberforce.
August 23, 2025
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publication of The Thirty-Day Vegan Challenge, by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau; Publication of Vegan Ethics: AMORE—Five Reasons to Choose Vegan, by Lisa...
August 22, 2025
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Plant Milk Day; The Pasture, by Robert Frost.
August 21, 2025
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism; PETA was Incorporated; A Divine Image, by William Blake.
August 20, 2025
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Bacon Lovers’ Day; A Song in Summer, by Sophie Jewett.
August 19, 2025
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Orangutan Day; National Potato Day; Birthday of Alex Pacheco; Birthday of Gary Yourofsky; The Potato, by Lillian E. Curtis.
August 18, 2025
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Never Give Up Day; Birthday of Madeleine Petsch; Keep Going, by Edgar Guest.
August 17, 2025
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Eggplant Day; Publication of Animal Farm, by George Orwell; A Reading from The Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
August 16, 2025
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Homeless Animals Day; St. Roch’s Day; Birthday of James Cameron; Birthday of Evanna Lynch; Stray Cat, by Francis Witham, from All-Crea...
August 15, 2025
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publication of Animal Ethics for Veterinarians, edited by Clair and Andrew Linzey; The International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine, hosted by PC...
August 14, 2025
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Lizard Day; The Lizard, by Edwin Markham.
August 13, 2025
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Wolf Day; A Night with a Wolf, by Bayard Taylor.
August 12, 2025
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Elephant Day; The Blind Men and the Elephant, by John Godfrey Saxe.
August 11, 2025
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Fufu Day; Publication of Adventures of a Pangopup, by Terri Tatchell; There Was a Child Went Forth Every Day by Walt Whitman.
August 10, 2025
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Lion Day; Melon Day; Publication of Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows, by Peta Tait; The Lion Going To War, by J...
August 09, 2025
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Book Lovers Day; There is no Frigate Like a Book, by Emily Dickinson.
August 08, 2025
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tarantula Appreciation Day; Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day; Neighbours, by Rudyard Kipling.
August 07, 2025
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Roger Yates; Birthday of Bruce Friedrich; August, by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
August 06, 2025
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Farmworker Appreciation Day; Saturday on the Farm, by Edwin C. Ranck.
August 05, 2025
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Oyster Day; National Couscous Day; A Prayer for Breaking One’s Fast.
August 04, 2025
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Clouded Leopard Day; Birthday of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Birthday of Wayne Pacelle; Release of the film, Babe; To a Skylark, by Percy Byss...
August 03, 2025
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Watermelon Day; Birthday of Tobias Leenaert; Wortermelon Time, by James Whitcomb Riley.
August 02, 2025
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Golden Lion Tamarin Day; Birthday of Dr. Gemma Newman; Liz White became Leader of the Animal Protection Party in Canada; I No Longer Ste...
August 01, 2025
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Release of the Documentary Film, Land of Hope and Glory; Publication of Inside Animal Hearts and Minds: Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other T...
July 31, 2025
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Avocado Day; Problems With Hurricanes, by Victor Hernández Cruz.
July 30, 2025
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Whistleblower Day; Birthday of Finneas Baird O'Connell; Webinar - Roadmap Towards Phasing Out Animal Testing: Next Steps for Humane Science; ...
July 29, 2025
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Tiger Day; The Tyger, by William Blake.
July 28, 2025
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Sea Star Day; Starfish, by Mary Oliver.
July 27, 2025
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Tree Day; First Episode of The Animal Law Podcast; City Trees, by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
July 26, 2025
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Mangrove Day; World Tofu Day; Release of the documentary film, Blackfish; Whales Weep Not, by D. H. Lawrence.
July 25, 2025
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Celia Hammond; Publication of Black Rican Vegan: Fire Plant-Based Recipes from a Bronx Kitchen, by Lyana Blount; Freedom Fields Festival; ...
July 24, 2025
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pythagorean Theorem Day; Birthday of Gene Baur; Arrests of Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane; Pythagoras And Countryman, by John Gay.
July 23, 2025
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Whale and Dolphin Day; National Lemon Day; Birthday of Woody Harrelson; Lemonade, Author unknown.
July 22, 2025
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Mango Day; Plantspiration® Eat Your Plants Off® Nutrition and Cooking Class; Buddha, by Vachel Lindsay.https://www.facebook.com/events/138...
July 21, 2025
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No Pet Store Puppies Day; Publication of Peter Scarborough’s Research; The Sparrow, by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev.
July 20, 2025
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Release of the documentary film, Your Mommy Kills Animals; Summer Vegan Festival Season; Vegan Toastmasters on Zoom; In Summer, by Lord Alfred Douglas...
July 19, 2025
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Urban Beekeeping Day; Birthday of Brian May; Birthday of Michael Klaper, M.D.; Birthday of Victor Kossakovsky; In Life's Garden, by Dixie Wil...
July 18, 2025
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Caviar Day; Birthday of Peace Pilgrim; Birthday of Ann Esselstyn; Quote from Peace Pilgrim.
July 17, 2025
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Geezer Butler; Publication of Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics, by Andrew Linzey; Publication of S...
July 16, 2025
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Snake Day; National Cherry Day; Publication of Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships, by Piers Beirne; Lov...
July 15, 2025
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Celebration of the Horse Day; Publication of The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America, by Susan J. Pearson...
July 14, 2025
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Be Nice to Bugs Day; Insects, by John Clare.
July 13, 2025
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Release of the documentary film, Fin; The Sharks, by Denise Levertov.
July 12, 2025
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publication of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, by Carl Safina; Pope Francis told young people that eating meat is part of a ‘self-destruc...
July 11, 2025
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of E.B. White; Publication of Anarchism and Animal Liberation: Essays on Complementary Elements of Total Liberation, edited by Anthony Nocell...
July 10, 2025
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Dr. Neil Barnard; Vegan Summerfest; Quote from Hippocrates.
July 09, 2025
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cow Appreciation Day; A Prayer from St. Basil.
July 08, 2025
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Blueberry Day; Be A Kid Again Day; Release of Cow Documentary; A Meditation, Remembering the Child’s Love of Animals.
July 07, 2025
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Koi Day; World Chocolate Day; The Vegan Report Podcast; Two Haikus.
July 06, 2025
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Zoonoses Day; Cure Yourself, by Maria Sabina Magdalena Garcia.
July 05, 2025
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Sylvester Graham; Birthday of Mel Broughton; Birthday of Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, aka RZA; Summer, by H. P. Nichols.
July 04, 2025
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Independence From Meat Day; Jackfruit Day; Independence, Henry David Thoreau.
July 03, 2025
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eat Your Beans Day; Birthday of Richard D. Ryder; Birthday of Rod Coronado; Publication of The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence, by Andrew...
July 02, 2025
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Kendrick Farris; Birthday of Alex Morgan; Publication of The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals, by Jenny Brown; Luck Is No...
July 01, 2025
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Bison Month; Birthday of Alex Hershaft, Carl Lewis, Pamela Anderson, and Patrik Baboumian; Words of Crowfoot.
June 30, 2025
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publication of The Terrorization of Dissent: Corporate Repression, Legal Corruption, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, edited by Anthony J. Noc...
June 29, 2025
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
St. Peter’s Day; Publication of How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach, by Tobias Leenaert; Farmed Animal Rights Movement at the NYC Prid...
June 28, 2025
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Tapioca Day; Birthday of John Wesley; Birthday of Chris DeRose; 1 Corinthians 13
June 27, 2025
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Pineapple Day; National Onion Day; Birthday of Toby Maguire; Birthday of Ruby Roth; Pineapple, by Ishwar Gupta; Ode To The Onion, by Pab...
June 26, 2025
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Release of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret; Publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics, edited by Clair and Andrew Linzey; ...
June 25, 2025
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Catfish Day; Birthday of Ricky Gervais; Publication of Death of a Whale: The Challenge of Anti-Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights, by Ca...
June 24, 2025
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 W...
June 23, 2025
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Yosvani Ramos; Release of Chicken Run; Publication of Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care, by Andrew Linzey; A Reading from Animal Rite...
June 22, 2025
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
June 21, 2024
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Giraffe Day; Publication of Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, by James Bridle; Publication of A...
June 20, 2025
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
American Eagle Day; First Episode of The Main Street Vegan Podcast, Hosted by Victoria Moran; The Eagle, by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland; The Eagle...
June 19, 2025
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Albatross Day; Birthday of Henry Spira; A Few Stanzas from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
June 18, 2025
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Gre...
June 17, 2025
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Croc Day; Publication of Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation, by Gary Francione; The Vegan Pod’s First Episode;...
June 16, 2025
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Sea Turtle Day; PNinety-Five: Meeting America’s Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs, by Davida Breier (photography by Derek Goodwin); Bi...
June 15, 2025
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Turkey Lover’s Day; Release of Eating Animals documentary; Publication of This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You), by...
June 14, 2025
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Cucumber Day; Publication of Raccoon, by Daniel Heath Justice; St. Louis Vegan Market; Numbers 11:4-9.
June 13, 2025
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pigeon Appreciation Day; Birthday of Zoe Rosenberg; The Carrier Pigeon, by Victor-Marie Hugo.
June 12, 2025
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Falafel Day; Publication of Ageless Vegan: The Secret to Living a Long and Healthy Plant-Based Life, by Tracye and Mary McQuirter; And T...
June 11, 2025
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Lynx Day;Birthday of Ingrid Newkirk; Publication of Just Enough: Vegan Recipes and Stories from Japan’s Buddhist Temples, by Gesshin C...
June 10, 2025
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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; G...
June 09, 2025
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Lettuce Day; National Meal Prep Day; Birthday of Natalie Portman; A Mantra For Loving Kindness.
June 08, 2025
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Oceans Day; Birthday of Roger Fouts; Miracles, by Walt Whitman.
June 07, 2025
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International Tempeh Day; Birthday of David Clough; Publication of Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood, by Sam Machado, Cynthia Sousa Mac...
June 05, 2025
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Presumed Birthday of Socrates; International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing; National Veggie Burger Day; Birthd...
June 04, 2025
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publication of Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement, by Helena Silverstein; Release of Vegan: Everyday Stories; Animal Jus...
June 03, 2025
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
June 02, 2025
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Birthday of Stevan Harnad; Publication of Leo Tolstoy: A Vegetarian’s Tale: Tolstoy’s Family Vegetarian Recipes Adapted For The Modern Kitchen, by...
June 01, 2025
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Animal Rights Day; World Reef Awareness Day; Publication of Strategic Action for Animals: A Handbook on Movement Building, Organizing, and Ac...
May 31, 2025
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Parrot Day; The Merchant and the Parrot, by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s ...
May 30, 2025
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Launch of Vegans Against Facism; Passage from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The...
May 29, 2025
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Alligator Day; Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters.If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, pl...
May 28, 2025
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World Otter Day; Publication of Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, by David Nibert; Sonnet: To the River Otter, b...
May 27, 2025
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
National Grape Day; Exodus 23: 1-12. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@...
May 26, 2025
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Feast Day for St. Philip Neri; Arrest of Jake Conroy; Publication of Yoga and Veganism: The Diet of Enlightenment, by Sharon Gannon; Gayatri Mantra.If...
May 25, 2025
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Publication of Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease, by Sherra Aguirre; Publication of Heart Disease Cookbook: Easy Plant-Based, Heart...