Bob talks with John Robbins, food activist and author of No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Food Revolution. Robbins, the heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune, is also the author of 1987’s Diet For A New America, which advocated a plant-based diet and warned of the dangers to health, environment and the economy of overconsumption of meat. He blogs for the Huffington Post.
Then, in Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples, journalist and cultural historian Rodger Streitmatter discusses the lives of fifteen couples who defied the laws and social order of their day by thriving in same-sex marriages [Broadcast Date: May 9, 2012]
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