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Bill: GM Policy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rationalist 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: December 2087
Description[?]:
| This bill adresses the illogical state of affairs currently in place in our nation, labeling accurately is impossible (there are no test to prove something is GM), there is no defined acceptable level of "contamination" of non-GM products, and labeling will only increase costs to industry. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: invalid choice
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 | 04:46:29, July 28, 2005 CET | From |  Federation Under Crazy Killers -- United | To | Debating the GM Policy |
| Message | No, I think people have the right to know exactly what is in their food. |
| Date | 04:55:31, July 28, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the GM Policy |
| Message | How much is allowed with no label then? What processes can remove the GM label? (eg oil extraction and use) At what stage of production is testing done? How are you to test for GM products? |
| Date | 19:30:45, July 28, 2005 CET | From | Federation Under Crazy Killers -- United | To | Debating the GM Policy |
| Message | Putting a few extra words on a label that is already on a product is not going to increase costs. A company should know what is being used in their food. I dont know how to verify it. I'm sure there is a way. Maybe if you provided me with a source that says its not possible I would change my mind. |
| Date | 20:32:57, July 28, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the GM Policy |
| Message | The cost increase is not due to the printing, it comes from duplication (need two processes for nonGM and GM). Agreed that a company should know what is in their food, but what about cross pollination? That would make the plant a second generation GMO. As for the source saying that it can't be done reliably, the one that I am using I do not have here, but it is by a U Sask. professor of botany, who has four GM patents to his name. I don't know when I will be back there next, but the info is at my parents' house. You still haven't addressed my first three questions. |
| Date | 02:20:25, July 29, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Marxist Party | To | Debating the GM Policy |
| Message | We should not be required to show GM products. Besides, it is IMPOSSIBLE to determine a GM crop amidst a batch of organic crops. Most domesticated crops are to0 genetically different from each other to establish a non-GM crop's identity. GM crops are not tomatoes mixed with fish, they are crops with a higher protein yield caused by genetic engineering whil domesticated crops are crops with a higher protein yield caused by selective breeding. Personally, I would be more scared by all-natural crops as any amount of defects get through in domestication. Look at the africanized killer bee. |
| Date | 06:09:52, July 29, 2005 CET | From | Federation Under Crazy Killers -- United | To | Debating the GM Policy |
| Message | Ok then. I'll go along with it. And Rationalist. I didnt answer the first 3 questions because I didnt understand what you were asking. But I'm going along so it doesnt really matter now. |
| Date | 06:19:51, July 29, 2005 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the GM Policy |
| Message | Oh, then sorry. Even though you'll support I will answer the questions for clarity, and because now that I read them, I see they weren't well worded. 1) How much GM product would be allowed in a non-labled good? (ppm or %) 2) Are there any products that do not need a label due to a lack of DNA in the end product? And I don't remember what was so important about the third... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 180 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 60 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 10 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow role-play that seems to belong to the world of fantasy, science fiction and futuristic speculation. |
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