Vegan's Almanac

National Snuggle a Chicken Day; Publication of Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity , by Colleen Boggs; Health and Wealth in 2025 Webinar; The Rooster , by Abu'l Qasim As'ad ibn Billita.

Birthday of Sir Lewis Hamilton; Publication of The Secret Life of Pigs: Stories of Compassion and the Animal Save Movement, by Richard Hoyle and Anita Krajnc; Philippians 4:8.

National Bean Day; Birthday of Murray Rose; Birthday of Derrick Morgan, Publication of Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations , by Doris Schneeberger; I Believe In The Sun Even When It Is Not Shining, author unknown.

National Bird Day (U.S.); Publication of Animal Liberation Front : Complete Diary Of Actions- 40+ Year Timeline Of The A.L.F., And The Militant Animal Rights Movement , by Peter Young; Birds, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Birthday of Joyce Tischler; Publication of Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Paul Waldau; Publication of Animals Are Not Ours (No, Really, They’re Not): An Evangelical Animal Liberation Theology , by Sarah Withrow King; Candlelight Vigil for Elephants; The Elephant is Slow to Mate , by D.H. Lawrence.

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility, by Martha C. Nussbaum; San Diego’s Vegan Night Market; January, by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Western Feast Day for St. Basil; Birthday of Matt Ball; Publication of On Animals: Volume I: Systematic Theology , by David L. Clough; The North Wind Doth Blow.

Publication of The Dark Face of Science, by John Vyvyan; Publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory , by Carol Adams; Publication of The Heretic’s Feast: A History of Vegetarianism , by Colin Spencer; Publication of Speciesism , by Joan Dunayer; Publication of The Minimalist Vegan: A simple manifesto on why to live with less stuff and more compassion , by Michael...

Time to Sign Up For Veganuary!; World Peace Meditation Day; A Guided Meditation From Dr. Lisa Miller.

National Bacon Day; A Prayer by Carol J Adams.

Vegan Tour and Hanukkah Celebration at Peaceful Fields Sanctuary in Winchester, Virginia; Vegan Book Club at the Quaker Meetinghouse in West Hartford, CT; Anonymous For the Voiceless Cube of Truth in Frankfort, Germany; The Bodhisattva Vow.

Holy Innocents Day; National Short Film Day; Birthday of Elaine Hendrix; Holy Innocents , by Christina Rosetti.

International Day for Epidemic Preparedness; Birthday of DaQuan Jones; Publication of Tyranny or Fraternity: The Perspective of Animal Liberation Theology , by Marco Túlio Procópio; Fear by Kahlil Gibran.

Birthday of Gaz Oakley; Publication of Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs; Animal Activist Online Support Group idausa.org/supportgroups ; Winter Branches , by Margaret Widdemer.

Christmas in Bethlehem; Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Last Day of Advent Season; LiveKindly.com Vegan Christmas Recipes; Publication of The Vegan Starter Kit: Everything You Need to Know About Plant-Based Eating , by Neal D Barnard; Quote From Meister Eckhart.

Birthday of Jo-Anne McArthur; Monday Morning Meditation Online; O Holy Night, by John Sullivan Dwight.

Mathematics Day on the Birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan; Publication of Vegan Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Reduce Inflammation, and Live Longer―The 16:8 Way―With over 100 Plant-Powered Recipes to Keep You Fuller Longer, by Petra Bracht and Mira Flatt; Winter Solstice Party at East End Brewing Company in Pittsburg, PA; The Delights of Mathematics , by Robert Fuller Murray.

Winter Solstice Day; 2nd Annual Vegan Holiday Event in Washington Square Park, NYC; Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost.

Publication of Blissful Basil: Over 100 Plant-Powered Recipes to Unearth Vibrancy, Health, and Happiness , by Ashley Melillo; Interview with Lifting Vegan Logic; Advent, by Christina Rosetti.

Look For An Evergreen Day; Birthday of Steven M. Wise; The Evergreen, by George Pope Morris.

Birthday of Billie Eilish; Make Cookies Day; The Cookie Jar, by Edgar Guest.

National Maple Sugar Day; Publication of We All Love: A Book for Compassionate Little Vegans and Vegetarians , by Julie Hausen; Kindness to Animals, Author Unknown.

Birthday of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Birthday of William Cowherd; The Hunting of the Hare, by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Publication of The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan: Look Good, Feel Good & Do Good in 30 Days , by Jasmin Singer; Publication of Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation , by Nathan Poirier; Release of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget; Hens and Chickens, by William Lisle Bowles.