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Bill: Farmers' Freedom Act, 3896
Details
Submitted by[?]: Borgerlig-Demokratiske 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: October 3896
Description[?]:
| Mr Speaker, apart from a protected few who are fortunate enough to be able to afford the luxury of performing green farming, the government currently makes life very hard for farmers, banning many techniques and activities that used to support their income in better times, such as forestry or GM crops. We propose to re-privatize forests to their previous owners while retaining protection standards that do not completely prevent commercial activity, in addition, we wish to relax regulation on GM crops and pesticides, whose use will greatly enhance the efficiency and lucrativeness of farming and benefit countless farming families by allowing them to choose from a wider range of techniques and methods of agriculture. Prof. Hans Granlund FV party leader |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Forest management.
Old value:: Local governments are required to operate forestry agencies, which own and manage all forest land.
Current: There is a national agency which owns and manages all forest land.
Proposed: All forestry is performed by private companies.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Current: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Proposed: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
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: 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.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: Chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are banned.
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 | 18:27:48, August 23, 2015 CET | From |  Fria Kommunistiska Alliansen | To | Debating the Farmers' Freedom Act, 3896 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker What the FV is offering, is that we should drain our groundwater to makie up for the quality of the soil we will have as a result of our overexploitation. Instead, we should enforce compulsary biological agriculture, yeah, farmers will lose a little money in comparing to right now or we will have higher price, but at the least, we shall have no droughts, Why should we fix something that is broken ? Nathalie Danielsson |
| Date | 20:26:34, August 23, 2015 CET | From | Borgerlig-Demokratiske Union | To | Debating the Farmers' Freedom Act, 3896 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, our farmers would be fools to destroy their capital, which is their lands. Sadly the Communists have a very bad opinion about our people, basically nannying them on every issue except incest. Leya Nordahl FV Deputy Leader |
| Date | 20:27:03, August 23, 2015 CET | From | Folkeviljen (FV) | To | Debating the Farmers' Freedom Act, 3896 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Even though, we are supportive of many articles presented by FV, we are still cynical and reluctant about Genetically Modified Organisms. We agree that GMO field must be fully researched but we can not give our blessings for producing and selling. Therefore, we will vote against this bill if FV does not omit Article 3 from it. Christine Lovenskold SD Leader Leader of Opposition |
| Date | 23:41:31, August 23, 2015 CET | From | Fria Kommunistiska Alliansen | To | Debating the Farmers' Freedom Act, 3896 |
| Message | Mr Speaker The FV believe that everything will good, like magic, if we just people farm on they want, they will go for lowers prices, by extracting more then they should from the soil and they will ruin the oil, then because of the draught brought by intensive agriculture, we will have to drain our ground water, until there is no more. Surely, biological agriculture is way simplier, did you know that my brother's company started on biologicals foods, there is a lot we can do with biological agriculture. Nathalie Danielsson |
| Date | 06:15:59, August 24, 2015 CET | From | Fria Kommunistiska Alliansen | To | Debating the Farmers' Freedom Act, 3896 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker. ---------------------------- Cries Ylva Nystrom ---- was not really invited to speak by the FKA------ The FV are so right, we should let the invisible hands of the free handle everything on the market, that way, we are sure to have freedom. We should have no need, cause when the fish will go out, well, we will just overhunt one of the next species. We don't need to worry about pollution, we can let the invisible hands of the free market rule that out and if ever thing get too polluted, well, we will begin constructing pollution-habitable houses, for those who can pay... and we could live in undergrounds cities. we will not have to worry about immigration, cause no one will ever want to live near a giant garbage waste. Don't worry a think about missing waters, if ever it comes to it, we'll extract waters from others country and be destroyed in war and don't even worry about the earth, when we are done it polluting it, we'll die from pollution, along with all lives and the earth shall recuperate to create a world free of humans, See, the invisible hand of free market, really work... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 58 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 81 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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