$8 for Dozen Eggs? Why It's a Good Deal

Foodie reformer Michael Pollan continues his "pay more, eat less" crusade in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, arguing that $8 for a dozen eggs should be standard fare. It sounds absurd, "but when you think that you can make a delicious meal from two eggs, that's $1.50. It's really not that much when we think of how we waste money in our lives."

The problem is that "we've been conditioned by artificially cheap food to be shocked when a box of strawberries costs $3," he says. "But it's important to know that farmers aren't getting wealthy. When you see strawberries being sold for $1 a box, picture the kind of labor it takes to pick those strawberries and the kind of chemicals it takes to produce those kinds of strawberries without hand weeding." Best advice: Eat food that's in season, and get to a farmers' market if possible to keep the price down. (More food stories.)