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Bill: Food Awareness Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Loving Big Brother Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2353
Description[?]:
| All foods must list any controversial chemicals used, as well as whether it or any of its components have been genetically modified. A select committee of Government and Industry representatives shall be formed to create a code of welfare outlying what chemicals shall be deemed controversial. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients, or chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Current: There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients, or chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Proposed: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:29:18, February 01, 2007 CET | From | Loving Big Brother Party | To | Debating the Food Awareness Bill |
| Message | In Aloria we believe in the freedom of choice for our citizens. How can they make the choice of what they consume if they are not fully informed? |
| Date | 03:57:37, February 01, 2007 CET | From | Advancement of the Human Race | To | Debating the Food Awareness Bill |
| Message | agreed |
| Date | 05:08:36, February 01, 2007 CET | From | Militant Libertarian Front | To | Debating the Food Awareness Bill |
| Message | ingredient listings can be self-regulating. Companies selling products without controversial ingredients will likely advertise the absence of these ingredients and consumers are free to choose such products. It is not or the state to dictate how companies may package their product. |
| Date | 19:51:09, February 01, 2007 CET | From |  Fair Capitalism Party | To | Debating the Food Awareness Bill |
| Message | But then I could lace my product with arsenic. The person who's son just died from eating it is hardly going to be consoled by a competitors "Now 100% Poison Free" product. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 391 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 209 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Alduria, Rildanor and Lourenne all have Canrilaise (French) cultures. |
| Random quote: "In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy." - Brian Mulroney |