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Bill: Food Awareness Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pansexual Peace Party -- FNORD
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: January 2552
Description[?]:
| So the People can know what they are putting into their bodies. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food and beverage labeling regulations.
Old value:: Companies are required to label food and beverage products somewhere on the package.
Current: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Proposed: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: Any GM ingredients must be listed. There is no requirement to disclose chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Current: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Proposed: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
Scope of food ingredient labeling (if present).
Old value:: Only the major ingredients and those with specific labelling requirements must be listed.
Current: All ingredients must be listed.
Proposed: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:48:59, March 25, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary Freedom Party -- KEG SLAM | To | Debating the Food Awareness Act |
| Message | Putting nutritional information on the labels will allow the right wing to decrease food sales and restrict the food supply by making people too afraid to eat! We should be increasing, not decreasing the economy. |
| Date | 17:01:40, March 26, 2008 CET | From | Free & United Rights For People | To | Debating the Food Awareness Act |
| Message | Who gives a shit no one reads food labels anyway!! |
| Date | 02:46:01, March 27, 2008 CET | From | Pansexual Peace Party -- FNORD | To | Debating the Food Awareness Act |
| Message | I read them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 346 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 404 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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