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All-Creatures.org Newsletter - April 29, 2026

From the Desk of the Executive Director

For a World that Honors All Mothers

I encourage you to be active in honoring, remembering, and helping all mothers and babies as we approach Mother’s Day. We will slowly shift our planet into a compassionate world, and it takes each one of us to make that happen. There is so much available that you can participate in this year leading up to Mother’s Day!!! To start with, and from the comfort of where you are at this moment, watch the amazing music video Widen Our Golden Rule, produced in honor of the upcoming International Calf & Cow Mother’s Day led by Climate Healers and Million Vegan Grandmothers. It is so VERY beautiful and powerful – be sure to watch and share, share, share!

On May 1^st: There is a free 2^nd teaching for Compassionate Advocacy, From Awareness to Action, on May 1^st, at 2 p.m. ET. Information about the speakers is included in the sign-up link. Register for this event here!

Please feel inspired to help between now and this Mother’s Day 2026! You can sign up to host your own event AT ANY TIME (a brunch, vigil, community art project, share recipes, table, host a documentary screening, or visit a local sanctuary) to show your solidarity and bring more awareness to the suffering mothers and babies. Sign up to host an event for Calf & Cow Mother’s Day here!

Also be sure to stay tuned for our founder, Vegan Pastor Frank, who is speaking about honoring all mothers and babies in this week’s and next week’s Fridays with Frank and Stump the Pastor video series.

And I will be hosting a hybrid vigil: an in-person vigil in Michigan with the option to join online from anywhere on the eve of Mother’s Day, Saturday May 9, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. A link to sign up for the vigil will be provided in next week’s newsletter and displayed on the homepage of our site for easy signup.

~ Kindness, Tams

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Please be sure to wish our founder, Vegan Pastor Frank Hoffman, a Happy Birthday this week by making a donation of any size to All-Creatures.org or sending him your well-wishes in an email at [email protected]! Pastor Frank has been a trailblazer in faith-based veganism in the United States since the 1990s. He came out of a church who wasn’t ready for veganism and reached the masses by going online with All-Creatures.org, helping hundreds of other vegans over the decades.

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Good News for Animals

• Celebrate International Calf & Cow Mothers’ Day Inaugural Global Event
• 5 Ways to Be a Responsible Tourist & Help Keep Wildlife Wild
• Common Buttonbush – a star nectar plant for butterflies

Action Alerts

• Tell FAO Schwarz: No Teddy Bear Should Come From Suffering
• Neo Vertika Doubles Down on Pigeon Massacre—Speak Up!
• Dolphins Are Languishing at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom: Take Action
• Demand That Temu Ban Fur, Wildlife Skins, and Angora
• Tell BIGGBY—No Upcharge on Vegan Milk
• Urge ITV to Stop Broadcasting the Grand National
• Please Do a Compassionate ACTION for Chickens in May!
• Urge Sobeys to Go Cage-Free
• More alerts...

Stories, Poetry, Prose, Art

Happy National Poetry Month!
• Song of Orca
• Spring Beauty
• Mother Earth
• Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)

Thought-provoking Articles

• 16 Ways to Feel Forever Young
• Vegan First. How Hard is That?
• Nesting Condor’s First Egg Likely Failed

Religion / Spirituality and Animals

• Sermon - Evil Animal Treatment
• Popcorn Video Sermon - Stopping Evil Animal Treatment
• Stump the Pastor - Can you talk about pigs in scripture?
• Stump the Pastor - Can you explain the tables being turned over in the temple?
• Compassion in Religion / Spirituality - Links
• Vegan Churches - Vegan Friendly Churches - Vegan Pastors
• Christian Vegetarian Association April 27 Newsletter
• Vegan Morning Prayer By Tams Nicholson

Recipes - Let No Animal Die That We May Live!

• Kale Mushroom Rice Chinese Soup
• Rye Bread
• Banana Raisin Oatmeal Cookies

• All-Creatures.org Live Stream Interviews
• April 29, 5:00 - 8:00 pm ET - Taste of Vegan Weddings Stroll - Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
• April 30, 1:00 pm ET - Vegans Around the World - World Peace Yoga: Inner Stillness and Compassionate Living with Anna Ferguson
• April 30, 6:00 - 7:30 pm ET - Social Media Strategies for Animal Advocates - online
• May 1, 2:00 pm ET - ICCMD: Two-Part Teaching Series for Compassionate Advocacy - Part 2: From Awareness to Action - online
• May 2, 12:00 - 3:00 pm - Leafleting at the White House for International Respect for Chickens Day - Washington, DC, U.S.A.
• May 4 - International Respect for Chickens Day
• May 7, 8:00 pm ET - World Peace Meditation with Dr. Will Tuttle - online
• May 9 & 10 - International Calf and Cow Mother’s Day 2026
• May 21-24 - Animal & Vegan Advocacy International Summit Canada - Toronto, Canada
• June 4, 8:00 pm ET - World Peace Meditation with Dr. Will Tuttle - online
• June 7, 12:00 - 5:00 pm - Asheville Veganfest Spring - Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
• June 21, 12:00 - 4:00 pm - Pop Up Charlotte - Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.
• July 16-19 - Animal & Vegan Advocacy International Summit Ghana - Accra, Ghana
• July 18, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET - Disabled Vegan Expo 2026 - online
• July 19, 12:00 - 5:00 pm - Columbia Vegfest 2026 - Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
• More events...