Got Cheap Milk? Why ditching your fancy, organic, locavore lifestyle is good for the world’s poor.

As the U.S. government starts planning budget reductions that will slash everything from defense spending to health care to bridge repair, potential cuts worth around 0.00025 percent of the value of the deficit reduction agreed on in the recent $2 trillion deal appear to have garnered outsized attention: support to farmers’ markets. Read it all