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Bill: Agricultural Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Covenanters (IA)
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: September 2124
Description[?]:
| Fulfilling an election pledge and putting right a travesty our inactivity permitted. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
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 allowed.
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 | 03:37:33, October 10, 2005 CET |
From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | Well isn't it obvious, the election pledge was a bill without any extremist articles. So here is a bill withour any articles. =D
Seriously though, this bill is for the one article in their manifesto I agreed with, and is about changing crop subsidy to an evironmentaly friendly alternative. |
| Date | 21:37:01, October 10, 2005 CET |
From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | Who are you to say the 'claims' (statements of common sense) are false and remove the right to make an informed choice. |
| Date | 22:37:11, October 10, 2005 CET |
From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | There is no conclusive reliable proof that Genetically Modified crops do any damage to the Human Body(trust me, a few years back I had to do a School Debate on it. I spent months researching it -_-) |
| Date | 23:01:01, October 10, 2005 CET |
From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | You don't have to wait until there is conclusive evidence something is bad, when nature gives us all we need, and our past meddling brought us vCJD. |
| Date | 02:10:59, October 11, 2005 CET |
From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | While, like the Rzeczpospolita, I can't see any dangers in GM food, I understand not everyone has that point of view, I am in favour of labels on food, so that those who support GM food can have it, while those who don't can have organic food. |
| Date | 02:21:31, October 11, 2005 CET |
From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | Meh, then write legislation that labels it. I won't vote for it, of course, but the magic of democracy is that you can write a bill that says that it has to be labeled. |
| Date | 13:39:07, October 11, 2005 CET |
From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | Writing labels makes it seem like the thing is "bad" in some way. I want to dispel the lies about GM crops and for the people to know the truth, not propaganda. |
| Date | 13:55:39, October 11, 2005 CET |
From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | The RP aren't the world's authority on whether GM is "good" or "bad". It's unnatural, and that concerns some of us. We've been bitten before by messing with nature. If cows had been left to eat natural grass there'd be no CJD: instead we fed them sheeps' brains and look where that got us! |
| Date | 14:03:59, October 11, 2005 CET |
From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | The problem with GM crops is not human health related, but making sure that the GM crops don't interbreed with the wildtype plants. This is why many of the current GM crops are sterile. |
| Date | 15:35:05, October 11, 2005 CET |
From | United Conservative Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | GM crops for the masses ... it makes sense. They're cheap, and so are the crops.
Specially cultivated, home-grown and properly farmed produce for the nobility.
You know it makes sense.
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| Date | 06:57:44, October 12, 2005 CET |
From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Reform Act | | Message | UCP, you make no sense. Your elitist stance, indeed your whole poltical ideology, will not endear yourself to the population, so please continue spouting your nonsense, so that you can never get into a position where your policies can be enacted. |
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Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 656 |
| no | Total Seats: 94 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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