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Bill: Food Labelling Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jewish Mothers' Union
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: November 2562
Description[?]:
| Consumers are entitled to be aware of how the food they purchase has been processed. Melanie Koffenbaum (Leader of the JMU) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients, or 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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:14:08, April 16, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the Food Labelling Act |
| Message | "How many consumers are going to trust products not fully labelled? The answer is not many. Labeling products is in the economic self-interest of a corporation and its profits. They will fully label the products. And consumer unions and consumer advocacy groups will provide information to the consumers, and any corporations falsely labeling anything will take huge hits." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
| Date | 18:06:20, April 16, 2008 CET | From |  Ma'avak | To | Debating the Food Labelling Act |
| Message | "Corporations will not label their goods for this will be an extra cost to them, they will instead use collusion to ensure none of them publish food ingredients leaving the average citizen to suffer. This is the primary motive of industry, to reduce costs in order to make marginal gains with no care for the consumers." -- Nesí Hamdiná Tamir Kirschenbaum |
| Date | 18:09:35, April 16, 2008 CET | From | New Socialist Agenda | To | Debating the Food Labelling Act |
| Message | "Yes, profit is the prime motive. But if consumer groups are pointing out the faults of corporations, as long as the government does not protect corporations and the corporations do not initiate force, then some corporations will simply start labeling simply to get an edge on their competitors. Just like competition causes prices to drop because everyone's trying to have lower prices than the others, corporations would try to put up more labels and safety standards than others. In the 26th century, labeling does not cost anywhere near as much extra as it did in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and so it would become an edge for competition - just as improving product quality is." -Raamiah Galgenstrick, Chairman of the GJA Foreign Minister of the SJHB |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 177 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 180 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 43 |
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