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Bill: Food Safety Act of 2610
Details
Submitted by[?]: Green Party of Aldegar
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: June 2611
Description[?]:
| It is amazing how much toxins go into our bodies today, and, interestingly enough, the number of deaths from cancer and heart complications is increasing. The bill advocates the banning of chemical pesticides, fungicides and insecticides as a way of mitigitating the situation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: The government approves and regulates agricultural chemical use.
Current: The government approves and regulates agricultural chemical use.
Proposed: Chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:51:39, July 24, 2008 CET | From | Federation Aldegarian Party | To | Debating the Food Safety Act of 2610 |
| Message | If those chemicals are banned, then the environment and human health can benefit. But we must remind of the costly transitions to organic farming, those of which we have to bear responsibility in order to protect the farmers. If the ban comes into effect without backing up the farmers, then famines and plagues can be predicted; we certainly don't want those to happen. |
| Date | 10:03:40, July 24, 2008 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the Food Safety Act of 2610 |
| Message | Yes, this bill shall certainly be supplemented by subsidies to farmers and the development of organic farming techniques. |
| Date | 22:04:15, July 24, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Liberalism Party | To | Debating the Food Safety Act of 2610 |
| Message | I have no problems with pesticides and GM foods. |
| Date | 02:42:24, July 25, 2008 CET | From | Party of the Terravore | To | Debating the Food Safety Act of 2610 |
| Message | This should be further regulated instead of banned, until substantial cutting edges in GM products researches could allow us to depart from such primitive efforts to prevent plagues and boost harvests without taking any economic risk. I will vote against it for the time being, but will put up a poll requesting appropriation for subsidy in high-tech research to be implemented further in GM products. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 185 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 565 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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