World Vegetarian Day
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World Vegetarian Day is observed annually on October 1st. It is a day of celebration established by the North American Vegetarian Society in 1977 and endorsed by the International Vegetarian Union in 1978, "To promote the joy, compassion and life-enhancing possibilities of vegetarianism."[1] It brings awareness to the ethical, environmental, health and humanitarian benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle.
World Vegetarian Day initiates the month of October as Vegetarian Awareness Month, which ends with November 1st, World Vegan Day, as the end of that month of celebration. Vegetarian Awareness Month has been known variously as Reverence for Life month, Month of Vegetarian Food, and more.
Several additional days of vegetarian significance are included in Vegetarian Awareness Month:
- October 1 - World Vegetarian Day
- October 2 - World Farm Animals Day (WFAD)or World Day for Farm(ed) Animals - the Birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - a sad day, likened to a time of remembrance for those animal-persons killed by the food industry, commemorating their suffering and the needlessness of that sacrifice, and the dismissing social conditions under which that exploitation, confinement, and killing takes place. WFAD is organized by FARM USA.
- October 4 - The Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi
- First full week + additional 'straggler' days (in order to include as many weekends as possible for church, mosque, and temple involvement - World Week of Prayer for Animals (always includes The Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi). This may have been initiated by the now-defunct INRA, International Network for Religion an Animals, founded in 1985 by the late Virginia Bouraquardez (aka Ginnie Bee).
- October 16 - United Nations World Food Day (often a time of global reckoning with issues of human food security) – the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945.
- November 1 - International Vegan Day aka World Vegan Day - a vegan holiday celebrated since 1994 on November 1 – the anniversary of the creation of The Vegan Society
Additional Global 'Vegetarian Days'==
- March 20 - Great American Meatout - developed and sponsored every year by FARM, aka Farm Animal Reform Movement
- September 25 - International 'Hug a Vegetarian' Day
- November 1 - International Vegan Day aka World Vegan Day - a vegan holiday celebrated since 1994 on November 1 – the anniversary of the creation of The Vegan Society
- November 25 - International Vegetarian Day aka SAK Meatless Day - the birthday of Sadhu Vaswani (largely celebrated in India and throughout the Asian Pacific Rim nations, but known in Western nations among many vegetarians of Indian and Southeast Asian descent)
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- Meatless Monday - Every Week, go totally meatless on Monday - an international campaign that encourages people to cut out meat on Mondays to improve their health and the health of the planet. Reducing meat consumption by 15% (the equivalent of one day a week) lessens the risk of chronic preventable illness and has a strong positive impact on the environment. MeatlessMonday.com offers weekly meat-free recipes, articles, tips and news. Meatless Monday is a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns Inc. in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The program follows the nutrition guidelines developed by the USDA[2].
Meatless Monday is part of the Healthy Monday initiative[3]. Healthy Monday encourages Americans to make healthier decisions at the start of every week. Other Healthy Monday campaigns include: Do The Monday 2000, Quit and Stay Quit Monday, Move it Monday, Monday Mile and others.
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