Why does Joe Rogan say farms can't stop using glyphosate?

Joe Rogan said that when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on his show, Kennedy explained that an executive order kept glyphosate in use because removing it would hurt the food business. Rogan says switching would be enormously expensive. Alternatives such as laser weeding exist, he says, but regenerative farming takes about a decade of rebuilding soil with compost, fertiliser and organic matter.

• Rogan calls today's farmland a toxic dust layer that needs added minerals and nitrogen before anything grows.
• Rogan wonders how many illnesses glyphosate, microplastics or phthalates cause, comparing them to the old miasma theory of disease.

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“the food business is reliant on poison if it doesn't use poison it can't stay open” Joe Rogan · at 35:56 — open in the transcript →

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