Vegan's Almanac

International Vulture Awareness Day; National Hummingbird Day; Birthday of Marc Bekoff; Publication of Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence, by Nathan Emery; The Humming-Bird, by Emily Di…

Publication of The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World, by David Boyd; Publication of Fellow Creatures, by Christine Korsgaard; Publication of, Introduction to Animal Right…

National Wildlife Day; Release of My Octopus Teacher documentary; Prayer by Margaret Wise Brown, Dear Father.

National Mushroom Month; The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants, by Emily Dickinson.

Birthday of Donald Watson; Birthday of Cleveland Amory; Birthday of Dr. Melanie Joy; Poem by Rachel Lyman Field, Something Told the Wild Geese

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

National Zoo Awareness Day; The Panther, by Rainer Maria Rilke.

International Whale Shark Day; Birthday of Mary Shelley; Birthday of Sylvia Earle; A quote from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.

Individual Rights Day; Liberty, by James Whitcomb Riley.

Birthday of Jennifer Coolidge; Publication of “Animal Ethics and Behavioral Science: An Overdue Discussion,” in BioScience Journal; Sonnet: To Science, by Edgar Allan Poe.

National Peach Day; Birthday of Tony Kanal; Peach, by D. H. Lawrence.

National Coconut Week; Birthday of Marti Kheel; Publication of Companion Animal Ethics, by Peter Sandøe, Sandra Corr, and Clare Palmer; Vendor of Green Coconuts, by Muna Lee.

William Wilberforce Day; Birthday of Antoine Goetschel; A Reading from, “Abolition Speech,” by William Wilberforce.

Publication of The Thirty-Day Vegan Challenge, by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau; Publication of Vegan Ethics: AMORE—Five Reasons to Choose Vegan, by Lisa Kemmerer; Publication of Be a Plant Based Woman Wa…

World Plant Milk Day; The Pasture, by Robert Frost.

International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism; PETA was Incorporated; A Divine Image, by William Blake.

National Bacon Lovers’ Day; A Song in Summer, by Sophie Jewett.

World Orangutan Day; National Potato Day; Birthday of Alex Pacheco; Birthday of Gary Yourofsky; The Potato, by Lillian E. Curtis.

Never Give Up Day; Birthday of Madeleine Petsch; Keep Going, by Edgar Guest.