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Bill: Agricultural Assistance Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Soziale und Liberale Demokraten
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: January 3866
Description[?]:
| This bill will provide a huge boost to the much-neglected agricultural community which continue to be blatantly ignored by the political elite. The current law is failing the poorest farmers as they are not given financial assistance for their operations. The law also punishes co-operative farms that have merged together or successful farmers who have expanded the size of their farm. Legalising GM crops will massively increase production which will enable millions of hungry people to bed fed at home and abroad. An overwhelming majority of countries allow GM crops yet we're left in the same group as dictatorships such as Ibutho and Jelbania. Pesticides and fungicides are banned and rightly so, but without GM crops it means our agricultural output is currently severely limited. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Current: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Proposed: Farm size is not regulated.
Article 3
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 banned.
Current: Production and selling of GM crops is banned. Research is 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 | 00:57:37, June 23, 2015 CET | From | Soziale und Liberale Demokraten | To | Debating the Agricultural Assistance Bill |
| Message | Why are Die Welle against this? - BFD leader, Mattias Wolff |
| Date | 12:32:34, June 23, 2015 CET | From | Soziale und Liberale Demokraten | To | Debating the Agricultural Assistance Bill |
| Message | This would be an absolute tragedy if this fails to pass. Dundorf's farmers are currently not allowed to use pesticides or fungicides to prevent crop damage nor are they allowed to use GM crops to maximise productivity. We're going to have an agricultural crisis unless we can reform agriculture. Lets become an agricultural powerhouse rather than a land of pests and ancient farming methods. - BFD Food and Agriculture spokesperson, Viktor Burgstaller |
| Date | 16:39:23, June 23, 2015 CET | From | Hosianische Demokratische Union | To | Debating the Agricultural Assistance Bill |
| Message | By deregulating the size of farms, what they can produce, and helping all farmers in need rather than just ones that support an ecological agenda our country would be able to be self sufficient in feeding its own people; and, have enough stock leftover for much needed trade. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 234 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 213 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 58 |
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| Random quote: "Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all." - Maximilien Robespierre |