The question, at bottom, is this: have we, with our ethical cars and condoms and carrots, found a way to make markets humane?
With leftist governments here in the state capital spending heavily on health and schools, a generation of scholars has celebrated the "Kerala model" as a humane alternative to market-driven development, a vision of social equality in an unequal capitalist world.
When Labrador and other Republicans in the House of Representatives voted last week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a law designed to make the insurance market more humane, Billy Koehler was there ― in portrait form.
"We have formed a joint venture to deliver modern, clean and humane workers' villages for the market in Qatar," said Michael Murphy, chief executive of GBS.
As Program Director for Animal Welfare Approved, Andrew has spearheaded the program's unprecedented growth, increasing the number of approved farms tenfold, promoting farm viability for humane livestock farmers, and growing market strength.
A wide variety of "humane traps" are on the market, which will enclose mice without killing them, but all work with the same basic principle.
Purpose: Grants for projects that help family farmers transition to pasture-based systems, improve the marketing of their humane products, or more generally to enrich the conditions in which the farm animals are raised.
It dropped the word "communism" from its party constitution in April, setting the new goal of building "democratic humane socialism". It now favors market-oriented economic reforms.
An even larger number of pigs (>100,000) are now being reared nonorganically on pasture and marketed as "pastured, humane, or free-range" pigs.
Senator McCain's plan — to buy troubled mortgages from banks at full value and replace them with mortgages at the house's lower market price — may sound humane, but it is an unjustifiable waste of taxpayer money.
