David Allison

It's chemical-free.

It has no chemicals in it.

I call it vacuum.

And I would like to sell you this vacuum, and basically that means nothing, because we are chemicals.

As my friend, Ferg Clydesdale, who's the former head of the nutrition food science department at UMass Amherst, used to say, the whole purpose of eating is to get chemicals into the body.

to replace the chemicals the body loses through the process of living.

All food is chemicals.

We are chemicals.

When you eat that apple and you say, I understand it, that's apple, unless you have a lot of chemical knowledge I don't have and most people don't have, you don't understand that any better than you understand something else that says benzoate phosphate or what have you in it.

You just think you do because you think you understand what an apple is at a chemical level.

You understand what it is at a fruit level, maybe, but not at a chemical level.

There are many chemicals in an apple and an orange that you or I couldn't pronounce, and that if someone wrote out what the chemicals are, we would say, what is that scary sounding thing?

And we also know that things that we think of as natural can be just as harmful.

Foxglove, hemlock, Socrates killed by being forced to drink all natural hemlock.

It was all natural, very harmful.

So poisons, drugs often come from natural things.

There's also a misperception that what we think of as natural is somehow has been around for thousands of years.

And in some cases, it's true.

In many cases, it's not.

So the oranges and the apples and the grains that you're eating today were largely not around years ago.