Word: rifkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immediate question, debated with considerable heat before two Food and Drug Administration advisory panels, was whether to require special labels on milk from cows given a synthetic hormone to increase their production. Consumer advocates led by the anti-biotech gadfly Jeremy Rifkin shout yes, insisting that such milk could represent a health threat. The biotech industry, which has millions at stake, naturally disagrees, and it has the support of many government scientists who have found the milk to be safe...
...toward a moral quandary. He evokes the wife's protectiveness and pragmatic respect toward her husband's labor even as she lashes out to end it. The play implies in each partner a hint of madness, then suggests how hard it is to distinguish between madness and vision. Ron Rifkin, who had a career-transforming success in The Substance of Fire, is even better in Three Hotels. Christine Lahti gives the less nuanced role of the wife an eerie blend of wit, charm and detachment...
Then one Super Bowl Sunday, Leora Rifkin, 4, daughter of Larry Rifkin, a programming executive with Connecticut Public Television, pulled a Barney tape off the video-store shelf and went home to watch it. And watch it. And watch it. Seeing the magic, her father called Leach's company, the Lyons Group, and they teamed up to produce 30 PBS episodes, which started airing last April. When PBS considered canceling the show last summer, parental howls saved it. Now 20 new episodes, which will introduce another dinosaur character, are scheduled for next year...
Critics, like anti-biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin, decried the FDA decision, arguing that tampering with nature could endanger consumers. In fact, though, many seemingly natural foods, including corn, nectarines and navel oranges, never existed before humans began to cross-breed -- a form of genetic engineering that simply takes a little longer than the laboratory version...
...blame for environmental degradation should the cattle industry rightly shoulder? In the Netherlands, for instance, manure from pigs poses a major ecological threat, defiling water supplies with excessive nitrates and acidifying local soils. Sheep have permanently scarred the landscape in Spain and Portugal, while in India -- a country that Rifkin praises for its kindness to cows -- bovines are ravenous wraiths whose constant quest for food drives them to ravage standing forests. Holy or not, most of India's 200 million cows go hungry much of the time...