June 11, 2019: The Long Neck Sunrise Rotary Club (Millsboro, DE)
Aysha Akhtar
May 19, 2019 ~ New Deal Cafe (Greenbelt, MD) Lunch Event:
Podcast: State of the Universe.
Factory Farming, Animal Testing & Human Health:
On this podcast, I discuss the impact of factory farming and animal testing on human health:
April 26-27, 2019: Providence Book Festival (Providence, RI)
March 25, 2019: Cornell Law School (Ithaca, NY)
Oct. 25, 2018: Eating Animals Film Screening and Discussion, Marymount University (Arlington, VA)
Sept. 15, 2018: AFS Conference (New York, NY)
October 5, 2017: Extinction and Livestock Conference (London, UK)
April 17, 2017: “What the Health” movie screening and discussion (Rockville, MD)
June 10, 2017: Rehoboth Beach VegFest (Rehoboth Beach, DE)
May 6, 2017: Rethinking Animals Summit (New York, NY)
Loving animals is good for us
As a neurologist, I’ve long held that empathy for and connection with animals is an important part of our social development. But can being with animals actually improve our well-being? In the 1970’s researcher Erika Friedmann and her colleagues made […]
Dr. Akhtar interviewed in The Chronicle of Higher Education
For Article: “Reconsidering Research On Primates” | By Brandon Keim: John Gluck still remembers the meeting, nearly a half-century ago, of his academic-journal club at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Gluck was a graduate student in the laboratory of […]
Nov 13, 2016: Space Coast Veg Fest (Cocoa, FL)
October 15, 2016: Science and Animal Testing (Cologne, Germany)
September 10, 2016: Toronto Veg Food Fest (Toronto, Canada)
Why does the death of a gorilla hurt us so much?
No matter how slimy, how scaly, how smelly, or even how scary, animals’ lives now matter to us. Why? Why do we care about other animals? Why do we care about beings whose lives are seemingly so removed from ours? […]