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Bill: Food Quality Information Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Passive Militarist 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 2095
Description[?]:
| While it is not advisable to create a vast bureaucracy to enforce food quality standards, the people have the right to know the quality of the food they purchace. So let it be resolved that a nationwide standard for food quality be adopted that its suppliers may voluntarily accept. Those who do accept it then may advertise that they did so. |
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 | 22:23:22, August 12, 2005 CET | From | New Passive Militarist Party | To | Debating the Food Quality Information Act |
| Message | Of course, this needn't be a burden on the taxpayer's money. This could be funded by a small certification fee paid by the businesses. Since compliance would be entirely voluntarily, businesses that pay the fee to be inspected and certified would, in effect, be buying an advertisement for the quality of their food. |
| Date | 23:46:08, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Selucian Corporate Party | To | Debating the Food Quality Information Act |
| Message | We are willing to support this. |
| Date | 23:51:34, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Party of Selucian | To | Debating the Food Quality Information Act |
| Message | WE also support this bill |
| Date | 00:16:54, August 13, 2005 CET | From | New Passive Militarist Party | To | Debating the Food Quality Information Act |
| Message | Good. So now, simply out of respect for legislative protocol, we shall wait a few more months, then send this to a vote. |
| Date | 03:01:49, August 14, 2005 CET | From | New Passive Militarist Party | To | Debating the Food Quality Information Act |
| Message | Now that the elections are over, this bill still has 53.7% guarenteed support. Time to vote. |
| Date | 17:10:33, August 14, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Selucian Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Food Quality Information Act |
| Message | If this scheme is profitable, it would be done by private companies. Perhaps the government should leave this to the private sector to handle. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 268 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 96 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 21 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel." - Ernesto "Che" Guevara |