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directed by Adam Rifkin...
...critics, organized by antibiotech gadfly Jeremy Rifkin, don't buy that line. They point out that cows treated with BGH are more susceptible to udder infections, and they are worried that unless milk is rigorously inspected, antibiotics used to treat the cows could find their way into the milk supply. While there is a germ of truth to their argument, their tactics -- and their rhetoric -- go overboard. Calling BGH "crack for cows," an alert issued by Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends warned consumers -- erroneously -- that ice cream and infant formula from treated cows would be "laced with...
...determine whether someone is at risk of contracting a long list of debilitating diseases. Of those polled, 90% said they thought it should be against the law for insurance companies to use genetic tests to decide whom to insure. Yet such practices are, in fact, quite legal. Jeremy Rifkin, a longtime opponent of some forms of genetic engineering, is now marshaling his resources to fight what he perceives to be the most serious new threat to civil liberties. "Genetic privacy will be the major constitutional issue of the next generation," says Rifkin...
June 28, 1993 -- Joel Rifkin of East Meadow confesses to the serial killing of 17 women in and about the New York City area. Another murder is attributed to him days later...
...Rifkin, however, was the exception. Few people seemed to be thinking of the Brave New World visions in which a totalitarian government creates whole subclasses of clones designed expressly for particular tasks. As Annas pointed out, there are better ways to create a crack Navy SEAL team or an astronaut corps than to clone the appropriate mix of sperm and egg and wait 20 years. "Maybe if this were Nazi Germany, we would worry more about the government," said Annas. "But we're in America, where we have the private market. We don't need government to make the nightmare...