Additional Days
Several additional days of vegetarian significance are included in Vegetarian Awareness Month:
- September 28th - " Hug a Vegetarian Day"
- October 1 – World Vegetarian Day
- October 2 – World Farm Animals Day (WFAD) or World Day for Farm(ed) Animals
- 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
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