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Bill: Food Labeling
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Peoples 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: June 2583
Description[?]:
| The people have a right to know exactly what they are consuming. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing must be listed. There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients.
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 | 22:05:51, May 23, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Food Labeling |
| Message | Yes. |
| Date | 01:18:25, May 24, 2008 CET | From | Loyalistische Partei | To | Debating the Food Labeling |
| Message | There is no need for this since there is no scientific proof that GM ingredients have any side-effect when compared to regular ones. |
| Date | 12:19:36, May 26, 2008 CET | From | New-Revolutionary Communist Party (NRCP) | To | Debating the Food Labeling |
| Message | But people have the right to know. If we require people to label the difference between different types of potato, when there is really no difference, that we really should require disclosure of GM contents. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 170 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 131 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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