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Bill: Food safety guidelines
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Authoritarian Movement
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: March 2468
Description[?]:
| There was'nt a real discussion on that, furthermore some parties were absend. That's why I offered this bill again. There are many people with certain allergies (peanuts is a common example). Big companies produce different types of food within the same factory, which causes a mixture of ingedients in some cases. The consument cannot know about every detail of any product he likes to buy. Therefore we must ensure, that food is labeled properly, and that the labeled production manners were really applied. One affects the other. That's why I put both proposals in one bill. Btw: Critical (chemical) ingedrients are not listed on the box too, if no ingriedients were listed at all. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food and beverage labeling regulations.
Old value:: Companies are encouraged by the government to label food and beverage products.
Current: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Proposed: Companies are required to label food and beverage products somewhere on the package.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Food safety policy.
Old value:: The government recommends food safety standards, but they are not enforced upon businesses.
Current: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Proposed: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:44:00, September 30, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Food safety guidelines |
| Message | "Yet again, you assume the market will not make laws that the consumer, not the state, want. To use your example; would a major food corporation really want a dead peanut allergy sufferer's family suing them? Of course the successful corporations will label their food and prepare it with the safety guidelines that are wanted and relevant to the people who buy it, the consumer. This can only happen through the free market, which your trying to distort." ~Ian Blaire, Shadow Minister of Food and Agriculture for the Liberty Party |
| Date | 12:22:53, September 30, 2007 CET | From | National Authoritarian Movement | To | Debating the Food safety guidelines |
| Message | "If free market means that noone takes care our citizens protecting them from harm, then the NAM is against the free market. We want competition to supply the people with the best and cheapest products. But every competition needs some rules. We can't sacrifice some citizens to let others seperate good from bad products. We don't know every reason why a company may produce dangerous food. Many scenarios canhappen. Sabotage of competitive products, etc. Some basic safety guidlines will not harm the free market, but offers security to the people." |
| Date | 13:25:36, September 30, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Food safety guidelines |
| Message | "Sabotage? Even a Communist economy can't account for that. The free market lets citizens take care of themselves, for their own benefit. Zardugal does not need a nanny state, changing now, after the market has long ago established itself to what the consumers want, would be devastating for the entire industry, especially the whole idea of competition as most underdogs will not be able to comply with the regulations as soon as they're enforced. We'll give the leading brand a monopoly of the food market for decades to come, cost countless jobs, raise prices and lower quality. This cannot be allowed to happen." Ian Blaire |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 123 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 260 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 18 |
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