Joe Rogan Experience #2578 - Calley Means · Aired Nov 6, 2026
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The soybean board is a glyphosate lobbying group.
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The United Soybean Board runs the federal soybean checkoff under USDA oversight. Federal law requires that its funds not be used to influence legislation or government action or policy, so it is not legally a lobbying group, for glyphosate or anything else. Separate groups such as the American Soybean Association do lobby on pesticide policy, so the soybean industry does push for these products, but the checkoff board is not the group that lobbies. This verdict would be wrong if records showed USB spending money to lobby for glyphosate in breach of that ban.
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Is it true that the soybean board is a glyphosate lobbying group?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The United Soybean Board runs the federal soybean checkoff under USDA oversight. Federal law requires that its funds not be used to influence legislation or government action or policy, so it is not legally a lobbying group, for glyphosate or anything else. Calley Means said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2578 - Calley Means, aired Nov 6, 2026, at 1:05:00. The supporting source is law.cornell.edu, linked below.
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