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Bill: Agricultural Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative 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 2603
Description[?]:
| Local governments should decide whether or not crops should be run by them or private industry. We should at least allow GM crops to be produced. If the people don't want them, industries will stop growing GM crops. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: All agricultural operations are state-owned and operated.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are banned.
Current: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Proposed: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:10:30, July 07, 2008 CET | From | Plowshare Collective | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act |
| Message | GM agriculture is dangerous and simply another tool to allow corporate hegemony in yet another area of life. we're fine with article 1 but article 2, no. |
| Date | 12:48:47, July 07, 2008 CET | From | Republican Patriciate Coalition | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act |
| Message | GM agriculture is not dangerous in any way... |
| Date | 18:26:04, July 07, 2008 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act |
| Message | GM agriculture is still in it's research stages, bro, and we don't know the health effects it may cause. Cancer has been linked in some tests to GM produced corn. And the introduction of new strains of plants into an ecosystem which is not used to them is just asking for trouble. Tomato plants that are immune to insects? What happens when they leak out into the wild? |
| Date | 21:39:29, July 07, 2008 CET | From | Republican Patriciate Coalition | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act |
| Message | The links to cancer happens to everything, including milk. With no actual evidence it can be discarded. We have many tomato planets immune to insects... oh yay, such a shame |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 406 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 309 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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