Vegan's Almanac

Monkey Day; Christmas Bird Count; Were I a Bird, by Edward Smyth Jones.

National Horse Day; National Cocoa Day; Council of Horses, by John Gay.

Birthday of Bob Barker; Birthday of Caldwell Esselstyn; Publication of The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health, by Thomas Campbell and T. Colin Campbell; Publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory, by Carol J. Adams; A Quote from Meister Eckhart.

Holiday Food Drive for Needy Animals Day; Publication of Diet for a New America, by John Robbins; Publication of Animal Sentience-the Other Minds Problem, by Stevan Harnad; I Dwell in Possibility, by Emily Dickinson.

Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales; International Animal Rights Day; Release of The Animal People documentary; Raven and the Whale, from the sacred stories of the Inuit peoples.

Genocide Prevention Day; International Day of Veterinarian Medicine; National Llama Day; Publication of Animal Minds and Human Morals, by Richard Sorabji; Publication of Animals and World Religions, by Lisa Kemmerer; If I Must Die, by Refaat Alareer.

National Lard Day; Birthday of Meagan Duhamel; A Meditation by Madeleine L’Engle, from Glimpses of Grace.

Birthday of Babette Davis; Publication of Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene, by Jo-Anne McArthur; Publication of Animal Law in a Nutshell, by Sonia Waisman, Pamela Frasch, and Katherine Hessler; I Heard a Bird Sing, by Oliver Herford.

National Gazpacho Day; Publication of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, by Bethany Brookshire; Ode to Tomatoes, by Pablo Neruda.

World Soil Day; Release of With My Own Eyes documentary; Publication of How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older, by Michael Greger M.D.; My Youth, by William Henry Davies.