Author: Aysha Akhtar

I studied factory farms for years. Visiting one was far worse than I imagined. Excerpted from Our Symphony with Animals: On Health, Empathy and Our Shared Destinies by Aysha Akhtar. Published by Pegasus Books. © Aysha Akhtar. Reprinted with permission from Salon.com. I was giving a talk at a conference in Oklahoma about the public…