Why Does a Glyphosate Order Talk About Munitions?

Calley Means disputes the national-security rationale for an executive order that addresses both elemental phosphorus and glyphosate. Joe Rogan reads the order's title and its language linking phosphorus to glyphosate-based herbicides, food production and livestock feed, then questions the connection to military supplies.

Means argues that the government could have addressed phosphorus supply chains separately rather than combining them with agricultural herbicides. In his account, the order had already been presented internally as final and Kennedy's office was discouraged from challenging it. He says it was signed without a public ceremony and explicitly says he cannot speak to whether President Trump knew about the dispute. The claim of a lobbying motive is Means's interpretation, not something the wording of the order alone proves.