Vegan's Almanac

International Day For Biological Diversity; Birthday of Maggie Q; Birthday of Novak Djokovic; A Prayer , by Carol J. Adams.

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.

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.

World Eel Day; Birthday of Dr. John McDougall; The Mystery, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

National Vegetarian Week; Birthday of Brigitte Gothiere; A Prayer For Our Dear Farmed Animal Friends , by Ryugen Doshin Yamada.

National Love a Tree Day; Birthday of Norman Phelps; Birthday of John Salley; Birthday of Candice Hutchings - The Edgy Veg; Birthday of Carleigh Bodrug - Founder of Plant You; Publication of Compassion for Animals: Readings and Prayers , edited by Andrew Linzey; Trees, by Alfred Joyce Kilmer.

Publication of What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?, by Vinciane Despret, translated by Brett Buchanan; Publication of The Three Ethologies: A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships , by Matthew Calarco; May , by Nathaniel Parker Willis.

International Chihuahua Appreciation Day; National Duckling Month; 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 The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep-Sea Life , by Stacy Alaimo ; Love’s In Need of Love Today, by Stevie Wonder.

International Day of Plant Health; Publication of Fiber Fueled , by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz; The Seedling, by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

World Ego Awareness Day; Birthday of Roberta Kalechofsky; Ozymandias , by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Mother’s Day; National Veal Ban Action Day; Mother o’ Mine , by Rudyard Kipling.

Birthday of Alexy Voevoda; Publication of Plants Saved My Life: How Going Vegan Transformed My Health , by Kelley Gilberry, CHN; Publication of The War Against Nonhuman Animals : A Non-Speciesist Understanding of Gendered Reproductive Violence , by Stacy Banwell; To Posterity , by Bertolt Brecht.

World Donkey Day; The Legend of the Jerusalem Donkey .

Birthday of Oscar Horta; Publication of Animal Oppression and Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict , by David Nibert; Publication of Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy, and Our Shared Destinies , by Aysha Akhtar; A thought experiment, from Oscar Horta’s book, Making a Stand for Animals .

Release of the Documentary Film, Forks Over Knives; Publication of Dix Questions sur l'Antispécisme , by Jérôme Segal; Publication of Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism: The Limits of Imagination , by Carlo Salzani; This Is My Father’s World, by Maltbie Davenport Babcock.

Amphibian Week; Totally Chipotle Day; Publication of Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World , by Candace Savage, the {10th anniversary edition}; The Bodhisattva Vow.

International Respect For Chickens Day; A Prayer, by Carol J. Adams.

International Leopard Day; Wild Koala Day; Publication of Solidarity with Animals: Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential , edited by Alasdair Cochrane and Mara-Daria Cojocaru; A Seed , by Willam Allingham.

World Tuna Day; Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market , by Pablo Neruda.

Save the Rhinos Day; Gardening for Wildlife Month; Release of the documentary film, Meet Your Meat; Publication of When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals , by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy; Animal Equality: Language and Liberation , by Joan Dunayer; The Holocaust and the Henmaid’s Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities , by Karen Davis; Muzzling a Movement: The Effects o...

National Animal Advocacy Day; National Raisin Day; Publication of The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth, by Martin Wikelski; Spring, the Sweet Spring , by Thomas Nashe.

National Shrimp Scampi Day; Publication of Suffering, Empathy, and Ecstasy: Animal Liberation as the Furthest Reaches of Our Moral Evolution , by Jeremy Yunt; Think of Others, by Mahmoud Darwish.

Save the Frogs Day; The Frog Pond Haiku , by Matsuo Bashō.