Vegan's Almanac

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; Birthday of Henry Bergh; 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.

World Painted Dog Day; Amy Soranno Gave Her Statement; A Portion of Amy Soranno’s Statement.

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; Publication of Animals, Culture, and Cruelty: Writings 2006 - 2015 , by Kelly Overton; 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 Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious: A Cookbook, by Jane and Ann Esselstyn; For Fear, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

World Plant Milk Day; Publication of Lament of Hathor: An Egyptian Cow Goddess Speaks on Behalf of Non-Human (and Human) Liberation , by Samuel Baca-Henry; The Pasture, by Robert Frost.

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

National Bacon Lovers’ Day; A Prayer, by Carol J. Adams.

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

Never Give Up Day; Protection of Animals Act; Birthday of Madeleine Petsch; Publication of The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals , by Katja Guenther; Keep Going, by Edgar Guest.

World Eggplant Day; Publication of Animal Farm , by George Orwell; A Reading from The Animal Farm, by George Orwell.

St. Roch’s Day; Birthday of James Cameron; Birthday of Evanna Lynch; Publication of The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds , by Leigh Calvez; There Was a Child Went Forth Every Day, by Walt Whitman.

International Homeless Animals Day; Stray - Documentary directed by Elizabeth Lo; Publication of Animal Ethics for Veterinarians , edited by Clair and Andrew Linzey; Stray Cat , by Francis Witham.

World Lizard Day; The Lizard , by Edwin Markham.

International Wolf Day; A Night with a Wolf , by Bayard Taylor.

World Elephant Day; The Blind Men and the Elephant , by John Godfrey Saxe.

The Death of the Prophet Muhammad; National Fufu Day; Portion of the tenth-century Muslim story, The Case of the Animals Versus Man.

World Lion Day; Publication of Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows , by Peta Tait; The Lion Going To War , by Jean de La Fontaine.

National Book Lovers Day; There is no Frigate Like a Book , by Emily Dickinson.

Tarantula Appreciation Day; Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day; Neighbours , by Rudyard Kipling.

Birthday of Roger Yates; Birthday of Bruce Friedrich; August, by Algernon Charles Swinburne.