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Bill: Informed Food choice.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Adam Smith Party
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: February 2092
Description[?]:
As with the control of industrial pollution, the best way to ensure high standards in the food industry is by consumer pressure. This can be achieved by informing the public as to what are the correct procedures, and thus allowing them to make informed decisions when purchasing their foodstuffs. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food safety policy.
Old value:: There are no food standards provisions.
Current: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Proposed: The government recommends food safety standards, but they are not enforced upon businesses.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 17:39:58, August 02, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Informed Food choice. |
Message | mark |
Date | 20:51:47, August 02, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Informed Food choice. |
Message | to use ASP logic on recycling: what is the point of standards that are not enforced? |
Date | 22:16:36, August 02, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Informed Food choice. |
Message | Not recycling a piece of paper or a bottle does no short term harm to the individual. Eating food that has not been correctly prepared does. Where the matter is a factor in purchase decisions, information is sufficient. Where the matter does not involve purchase decisions, such as rubbish disposal, just information does not affect behaviour as no deeper or more considered thinking is involved. When you go to the supermarket, or the butchers or greengrocers, you make conscious choices as to what you buy. When you put out the trash, you just put it out without choosing anything. Do you see a difference now? |
Date | 04:11:42, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Informed Food choice. |
Message | harm has a statute of limitations? Who knew? |
Date | 17:14:12, August 03, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Informed Food choice. |
Message | Great argument there. We are referring to the empirically verifiable behaviour of people, and you reply with a theoretical legal concept. Hum, that is going to change people's behavour a lot, we don't think. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes |
Total Seats: 171 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 262 | |||||
abstain |
Total Seats: 17 |
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