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Episode 493: Aysha Akhtar on the Neurology of Empathy

Our Hen House 22 June 2019 11


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-Mariann eats vegan chili on Broadway, Jasmin directed a TONY Award winner, and we discuss the reaction around Billie Eilish’s plea to her fans to go vegan.
-Mariann talks to Aysha Akhtar about how empathy for animals helps us recognize the interconnectedness of all social struggles against cruelty and injustice; how her background in neurology has lead her to these discoveries and guided her writing; and the dog that changed her life, led her to a life of greater animal empathy, and gave her the courage to stand up to her sexual abuse.   (13:00)
-Mariann brings us Rising Anxieties about “bullying” by animal rights activists. (45:05).

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