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Bill: Food Labeling Act #1
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sojuz Ljudej (People's 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: April 2137
Description[?]:
| To provide for honesty from business when it comes to GM ingredients |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients, or chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Current: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Proposed: Any GM ingredients must be listed. There is no requirement to disclose chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:54:47, November 05, 2005 CET | From |  Liberty Party | To | Debating the Food Labeling Act #1 |
| Message | How do you define GM? And why is GM bad (needing listing) but chemicals are ok. My (admittedly limited) understanding of the issue is that GM is extremely unlikely to result in a harmful product, but certain chemicals can (and *have*) in the past caused many people to be injured. At the moment this bill seems to just appease those neo-luddites who fear progress, while completely failing to provide any protection for the public against real health risks. As such, we are planning to vote no. |
| Date | 06:48:54, November 05, 2005 CET | From | Partiya Natsional'noy Gordyy | To | Debating the Food Labeling Act #1 |
| Message | We see this proposal as a halfway measure. To us you should want to list all ingredients or none. Make up your mind. We don't agree with this proposal. |
| Date | 02:37:50, November 06, 2005 CET | From | Herut Orthodoxy | To | Debating the Food Labeling Act #1 |
| Message | We side with LP, if anything chemicals or perhaps even both, but this, while not some sort of horrible bill, does not seem to do much. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 173 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 382 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes |