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Bill: GM Food Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Blobs
Status[?]: defeated
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 2116
Description[?]:
| A recent survey of Hobrazians (http://82.238.75.178:8085/particracy/main/viewnews.php?newsid=3669) has shown that a majority wish for all GM related activity to be legal. This act will do that but make it so that GM foods must be clearly labelled (as with pesticide containing foods) so that people can choose whether to buy them or not. For GM food to be sold and/or produced it must be from crops that have been shown to be safe to both the environment and to humans and animals that consume them. Any that do not meet these criteria may not be sold in any Hobrazian store. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: not recorded
Current: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Proposed: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:55:09, July 24, 2005 CET | From |  United Socialist Movement | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | But only a few years ago your party voted to ban them? You said you would change this once significant evidence proving their safety is seen, but so far i haven't seen any. Everything isn't totally governed by public opinion you know. |
| Date | 22:03:55, July 24, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | How about this quote - "I would allow selling as consumers may wish to buy them. These would, of course, be clearly labelled as GM crops in a similar way to those using pesticides so that customers are fully aware of what they are buying." Basically what this bill offers. The current regulations were preferable to none and if you read the bill only safe GM crops will be allowed to be grown and sold. Of course the opinion poll helped... |
| Date | 22:38:18, July 24, 2005 CET | From |  Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | So does this bill allow the selling of unproven or unafe GM products as long as it's labeled as a GM product. Or is the ban still in place for unsafe GM products? |
| Date | 22:52:03, July 24, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | The ban's still in place. It just allows specific ones to be sold once proven to be safe. Hopefully the new wording makes it clearer. |
| Date | 00:01:49, July 25, 2005 CET | From | United Socialist Movement | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | We will spearhead the call for no Frankenstein food to be available in Hobrazia. |
| Date | 00:08:30, July 25, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | If they are unsafe then this law would make them illegal. Otherwise I don't see your problem. |
| Date | 08:07:38, July 25, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | I'll support this. |
| Date | 18:49:26, July 25, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | At present, even with the recent survey, we see no requirement to modify the existing laws. |
| Date | 20:27:25, July 27, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | If there proven to be safe then why not allow them to be sold and labeled as GM so people are aware. |
| Date | 15:37:09, July 28, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | Because I have yet to see any research labelling them as safe. |
| Date | 22:30:41, August 07, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | How would we know if it was really safe? They will have to be tested first, and we have plenty of animals around...JK |
| Date | 18:45:29, September 25, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | I'm fed up with this. Let's vote. |
| Date | 20:56:54, September 25, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the GM Food Act |
| Message | To be honest, I'd completely forgotten about this. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 115 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 184 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 101 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow role-play that seems to belong to the world of fantasy, science fiction and futuristic speculation. |
| Random quote: "How we can possibly be giving £1bn a month, when we're in this sort of debt, to Bongo Bongo Land is completely beyond me." - Godfrey Bloom |