http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/7/11350/87265#92

Growth
Growth can be powered by efficiency and productivity due to innovation.  It doesn't have to involve more people using more resources.

Capitalism can be regulated to serve humankind.  Instead of serving up humanity as a commodity to feed the corporate bottomline.  Cheap labor, consumers, and cannon fodder, is that all humans are good for?  Like animals trapped in CAFO (confined animal feeding operation) hell.

There is a really great industrial food expose' film from Germany on Sundance lately.  "Our Daily Bread".  Check it out.

http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500198049

  Almost no dialogue, just animals, pigs, chickens, cows, and the humans that are cogs in the CAFO machinery.

Also some footage on greenhouse/chem/veggie production.  The humans become indistinguishable from the animals, except that the animals are set for slaughter.  But really, doesn't the industrial society farm humans as well?

We are all chattle on the all hat, no cattle duuhbyaist ranch.  Think of Orwell's "Animal Farm", which candidate will be a better farmer in chief?

Can Barack set the animals, including US human animals, free?  I think we all ought to heed the warnings of anti-cruelty activists and boycott industrial farming as a model for our culture.

How we treat the most helpless of organisms reflects our whole point of view.  Free the soil bacteria!  Stop chemical ag torture and murder of the soil ecosystem!  It's in that vein, bacterial rights, animal rights, all the way up the spectrum to human rights.  Free the chickens!!

It's shocking to see baby chicks shuttled through a conveyor system like parts on a mass production line.  Cheeping all the way.  Check out the movie.