World Vegetarian Day
World Vegetarian Day | |
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Official name | World Vegetarian Day |
Observed by | Vegetarians across the planet |
Significance | First day of Vegetarian Awareness Month (month of October) |
Celebrations | Local, regional, and national groups organize events to promote the desirability and benefits of vegetarian practices. |
Date | International Vegetarian Week (IVW),[3] International Vegan Day also known as World Vegan Day, International Vegetarian Day[citation needed ] |
World Vegetarian Day is
Additional days
Several additional days of vegetarian significance are included in or on the edge of Vegetarian Awareness Month:[8]
- Month of September - National Fruits & Veggies Month
- September 24 or 27 – "Hug a Vegan/Vegetarian Day"[9][10]
- September 29 – World Heart Day[11]
- October 1 – World Vegetarian Day[12][13][14][15]
- October 2 – World Farm Animals Day (WFAD)Mohandas K. Gandhi[16]
- October 4 – The Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi[17] and World Animal Day
- October 4 – Hug a Non-Meat Eater Day[18][19]
- October 1–7 – vegetarian lifestyle.[3]
- First full week and additional 'straggler' days (in order to include as many weekends as possible for church, mosque, and temple involvement) – World Week of Prayer for Animals[20] and World Animal Day (always includes The Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi). This may have been initiated by the now-defunct INRA (International Network for Religion and Animals[21][22][23]), [citation needed] founded in 1985 by Virginia Bouraquardez (also known as Ginnie Bee), and later led by UCC minister, Rev. Marc Wessels.[21] [citation needed]
- November 1 – International Vegan Day, also known as Vegan Society[24]
- Month of November - Vegan Awareness Month or World Vegan Month.[25][26][27]
Additional Global Vegetarian Days
- March 20 – Great American Meatout – developed and sponsored every year by FARM, also known as Farm Animal Rights Movement.[28][29]
- World Meat Free Day (June 13, 2016) is sponsored by a gathering of like-minded organisations - Eating Better Alliance, meat consumption can have on sustainability and health.[30]
- The last Friday of September- International 'Hug a Vegetarian' Day [31] Some may have tried to 'regularize' that floating date for "Hug a Vegan/Vegetarian Day" as either September 24 or 27 rather than the last Friday of September, as set by PETA2 in 2014 or before[9][10]
- November 25 – International Vegetarian Day also known as SAK Meatless Day – the birthday of
International Vegetarian Days
- Meatless Monday – Every week, go totally meatless on Monday – an international campaign that encourages people to cut out (not eat) 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 (strongly reduces ecological damages from the activities involved with meat production and transport or distribution). Meatless Monday offers weekly meat-free recipes, articles, tips and news.[35] Meatless Monday is a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns Inc. in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[36] The program follows the nutrition guidelines developed by the USDA.[37]
Meatless Monday is part of the Healthy Monday initiative.[38] 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.
Graphics
Various graphic and artistic representations are used; there is no one logo to represent World Vegetarian Day. Some of the other dates within Vegetarian Awareness Month have their own logos, or a series of logo representations, if they are sponsored in part or totally by identifiable organizations.[39]
Chinese society vegetarian days
There is a common practice for some Chinese people to be vegetarian twice a lunar month - the first day and the 15th day of each lunar month. (初一)﹑(十五). The 15th day of each lunar month is the day/night with full moon. Local vegetarian restaurants are particularly busy on those 2 days. The origin of such practice is related to religious beliefs.[citation needed]
Nine Emperor Gods Festival
The
See also
- International Vegetarian Week
- List of food days
- List of vegetarian festivals
- List of vegetarian organizations
- Meat-free days
- Vegan school meal
- Veganuary
- World Vegan Day
References
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- ^ a b "Hug a Vegan/Vegetarian Day, 9/25/2015, Rutgers Veg Society, accessed June 26, 2016".
- ^ a b "Hug a Vegetarian Day". Days Of The Year. September 22, 2023.
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- ^ "Happy World Vegetarian Day!". International Business Times. September 30, 2015.
- ^ "01 October 2016 - World Vegetarian Day, IDEA (International Dialogue for Environmental Action)".
- ^ "Manzelli, A. Happy World Vegetarian Day (poll), Global Animal, October 1, 2012".
- ^ "About NAVS, discusses how NAVS sponsors World Vegetarian Day for IVU in North America".
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- ^ "October 4, St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), Saint of the Day, St. Francis, AmericanCatholic.org".
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- ^ Josh, Jagran. "Current Affairs October 2015 eBook: by Jagran Josh". Jagran Josh – via Google Books.
- ^ White, H.S. Jewish Prayer Service World Week of Prayer for Animals. Between the Species. Fall 1989, page 214, accessed June 26, 2016. At that writing, Rabbi Harold S. White was INRA's President
- ^ a b "Religion and Animal Rights - Articles - The Writings of Vasu S. Murti: Human Rights". www.all-creatures.org.
- ^ "INRA - International Network for Religion and Animals".
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- ^ "This World Vegan Month, we are very pleased to announce the launch of our brand new app, VeGuide, that will make going vegan easier than ever. The Vegan Society. Accessed 8/28/2019".
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- ^ "SAK Meatless Day". www.sakmeatlessday.com.
- ^ "Sadhu Vaswani Mission, India - The Official Website". sadhuvaswani.org. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- ^ "Go Meatless Monday — It's Good for You, and Good for the Planet". Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ^ "Home". The Monday Campaigns.
- ^ "MyPyramid.gov - United States Department of Agriculture - Home". Archived from the original on 2007-07-26. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "About Meatless Monday". The Monday Campaigns. Retrieved 2021-10-02.
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- ^ "Looking back at the Nine Emperor Gods festival". MalaysiaNow. 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2023-05-20.