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Bill: Farming Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Novy Smer Party
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: July 2134
Description[?]:
| Increasingly we are seeing huge corporations buying up smaller farms and merging them together to create megafarms using intensive farming methods. This not only leads to the production of bland and unappealing food which floods our supermarkets and drives smaller farmers towards bankruptcy but it is also bad for our environment as such agricultural monocultures which these intensive methods need are damaging the ecological balance. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farm size is not regulated.
Current: Small farms are encouraged to merge together into larger ones.
Proposed: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:16:22, October 31, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Farming Bill |
| Message | We oppose this. Farms that grow to be large are likely to be the most efficient and profitable, employing world's best practice and providing the consumer with what they want. |
| Date | 11:00:30, October 31, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Farming Bill |
| Message | Leave His Grace's farms alone, you Communist rascals! Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
| Date | 18:04:00, October 31, 2005 CET | From | Sanctaphrax Party | To | Debating the Farming Bill |
| Message | So if someone becomes successful we should punish him? The Novy Smer seems to be a joke of a party recently. |
| Date | 19:40:22, October 31, 2005 CET | From | Aldegar Liberty Party | To | Debating the Farming Bill |
| Message | We agree with the sentiments expressed above. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 164 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 337 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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