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Bill: Pesticide Freedom Act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal-Progressive 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: January 2133
Description[?]:
| Requires farmers to list chemicals and pesticides used on their crops. The people then can make their own decision on whether to purchase that product, eliminating the need for government regulation and allowing the citizens to decide on the information that is listed. Pesticides that are know to be harmful to humans, and the environment are forbidden from use. |
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: Farmers are required to list chemicals used on their crops.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:16:07, October 28, 2005 CET | From |   Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Pesticide Freedom Act. |
| Message | The people can decide for themselves, there is little need for government regulation on this. |
| Date | 10:42:45, October 28, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Pesticide Freedom Act. |
| Message | What happens if a pesticide is used that is harmful to people and/or the environment? Under the proposal we would have no way to stop its usage. |
| Date | 10:52:33, October 28, 2005 CET | From | Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Pesticide Freedom Act. |
| Message | If a farmer uses a harmful product, who will buy his products? Will farmers suddenly start using deadly chemicals on their crops just because the government no longer regulates the legal chemicals? The farmers are going to continue using the same legal chemicals they have been using, now they only list what they use. And if he uses harmful chemicals I am sure it would be discovered and that will be the end of his farming career.. |
| Date | 12:54:00, October 28, 2005 CET | From | Hobrazia First | To | Debating the Pesticide Freedom Act. |
| Message | But they wont stop using the pesticides untill after they arefound out, ie after envioromental damage and possibly after harming people |
| Date | 14:16:21, October 28, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Pesticide Freedom Act. |
| Message | Does the average person understand what chemicals do what and their effects? No, they do not. The current law is the preffered one, it's not as if we stop farmers using chemicals, we just say "don't use these". All this bill does is allow farmers to use possibly unsafe chemicals until they are found out, by which time it is already to late. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 141 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 171 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 88 |
| Random fact: Did you know you can change the official name of your nation? All you need to do is draw up a new name that is in accordance with the Nation Renaming Guide, pass a bill proposing the name change with a two-thirds majority and then post a request to Moderation on the "Renaming Requests" thread. You can change city and region names in this way too. |
| Random quote: "Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." - Winston Churchill |