Vegan's Almanac

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.

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.

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. https://training.animaljusticeacademy.com/lunchtime-live-registration-06052025

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.

Birthday of Stevan Harnad; Publication of Leo Tolstoy: A Vegetarian’s Tale: Tolstoy’s Family Vegetarian Recipes Adapted For The Modern Kitchen , by S. Pavlenko; Tolstoy Quotes.

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 Ell...

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 Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

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 Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

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, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

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. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

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@gmail.com .

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 you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

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.

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

World Turtle and Tortoise Day; Birthday of Wayfare; Publication of Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice, edited by Lisa Kemmerer; The Tortoise and the Hare, by Aesop.

World Fish Migration Day; A Passage from Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

National Eat More Fruits and Vegetables Day; Publication of Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics , by Anna Peterson; Publication of More Than Human Rights: Law, Thought and Narrative for Earthly Flourishing, edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito; An excerpt from, The Call of the Wild, by Jack London.

World Bee Day; Morning Song Of The Bees , by Louisa May Alcott. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

Birthday of Derick K. Grant; Airing of Becky Sandstedt’s Footage on NBC’s Nightly News: “The Down Side of Livestock Marketing”; Genesis Butler Delivered Her Ted Talk; Matthew 21:14-16. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

World Baking Day; Birthday of Brigitte Gothiere; Waifs and Strays , by Arthur Rimbaud. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

World Eel Day; The Mystery, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. If you know of a notable vegan date we should include on The Vegan’s Almanac, please email us at vegansalmanac@gmail.com .

Endangered Species Day; Birthday of Norman Phelps; Birthday of John Salley; Birthday of Candice Hutchings - The Edgy Veg; Birthday of Carleigh Bodrug - Founder of Plant You; A Meditation.

Publication of Quick and Easy Low-Cal Vegan Comfort Food: 150 Down-Home Recipes Packed with Flavor, Not Calories, by Alicia Simpson; Publication of Anti-inflammatory Foods , by Beverly Lynn Bennett; Animal and Vegan Advocacy Summit 2025; May, by Nathaniel Parker Willis. https://www.avasummit.com/

International Chihuahua Appreciation Day; National Vinegar Month; National Salad Month; Jack and Jill, b y Mother Goose.

International Hummus Day; Birthday of Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton; Birthday of Stevie Wonder; Publication of Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals , by Laura Duhan-Kaplan; Love’s In Need of Love Today, by Stevie Wonder.