First hour: Can a movie help make plant-based diets go mainstream?
Second hour: National Women's Hall of Fame 2015 inductees
Can a film bring plant-based diets into the American mainstream? The notion of vegan living used to be considered fringe. That has been changing, and now the Rochester Academy of Medicine is bringing the film PlantPure Nation to town. We'll talk to the film's director, as well as people who have built or rebuilt their lives on plant-based eating. Our guests:
Ted Barnett, M.D.
Phyllis Fleischman
Michael Hagelberg
Nelson Campbell (writer/director of film)
In our second hour: On October 3rd, ten women will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls. We'll talk to one of the inductees, an award-winning researcher from the University of Rochester who discovered how bacteria communicate to attack human cells and initiate disease. And we'll talk to several inductees from past years, including a woman whose name landed on a major piece of federal legislation. Our guests:
Barbara Iglewski of the University of Rochester, 2015 inductee
Lily Ledbetter, past inductee, the name behind the Lily Ledbetter Act that was the first piece of legislation that President Obama signed into law
Kathrine Switzer, past inductee who was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon
Judy Pipher, Women's Hall of Fame Board of Directors