Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

We have addicted our farmers to these pesticides, and particularly glyphosate.

Glyphosate is the foundational pesticide of our food production system.

So 97% of corn in this country is produced with glyphosate and can't be produced without it.

98% of—you know, you could do it.

You could change it.

There's organic corn producers in this country.

It's like 3%.

98% of soy is produced with glyphosate.

If you ban glyphosate overnight or if you got rid of it or if somebody else cut off our supply, it would destroy the American food system.

Right.

The farmers don't like it.

Let me just explain what the EO did.

Right now, according to the industry reports, 99% of our glyphosate comes from China.

The Pentagon and others said this is an extreme national security vulnerability that China controls the U.S.

food system.

We can't afford to let that happen if we got in some kind of tangle with them.

It could literally cut off our food supply overnight and cripple the country.

And so that's what the president was responding to.

But we all know we've got to transition off of glyphosate.

We all know that.