The Core argument of his premise was that every individual had their own Biochemical profile, completely different from every other individual. Very much the way that fingerprints identify people. And that’s how he wanted nutrition to be seen. I think that’s true in all the realms of interaction with nature. And our job, is my argument is to create institutions that allow that kind of expression to emerge. The American system which now has an industrialized food supply that homogenizes food so that the same food goes to all individuals concessionally. That’s the way they do it. And that’s clash. Its a major clash. And shifting. There’s no question of shifting, I am arguing … I have to stop now and answer questions but I just wanted to say that this institution, this group that is certifying clinical nutrition is one of those kinds of institutions that creates the opportunity to take that kind of emerging energy and bring it into the American institutional structure.

When I worked with Ralph Nader and wrote the book,The Chemical Feast: The Nader Report on the Food and Drug Administration we analyzed the national television information on food and found that the top ten foods advertised on television, all fell outside the basic four food groups, that was the main way we talked about nutrition in the late 1960’s. Number one was beer and wine, number two was candy, number three was chewing gum and so forth. All of the top ten fell outside of the basic four foods. The result of that from my point of view in 1968 when I began working with Nader, was that the American public was being given one set of information through the mainstream of information that we used, and it was opposite of the information that was useful to them personally.

A discernible back-and-forth with Jefferson at its core characterized the American revolution, laying the groundwork for America as we know it. First came the Declaration of Independence, a Jeffersonian thrust. A Hamiltonian parry, the Constitution, preceded the Jeffersonian Bill of Rights riposte. The Hamiltonian Federalist government of Washington and Adams, succeeded by the Jefferson electoral sweep of 1800, carried on the duel. The Hamiltonians struck back after Jefferson's massive November 1800 victory by appointing the infamous "midnight judges" (including Chief Justice John Marshall) between election night and Jefferson's March, 1801 inauguration. For the next thirty-five years, Jeffersonian Presidents (Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams and Jackson) battled Hamiltonian Marshall and the courts to shape the nation. At Jefferson's death on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the die was cast.

Mr. Glassman quoted Smith, saying, "In a mercantilist [or protectionist] system, the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer." Smith then said, "It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to; and among this latter class our merchants and manufacturers have been by far the principle architects."