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Bill: Lift GM Reseach Ban
Details
Submitted by[?]: Beach Party
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 2191
Description[?]:
| Research causes no harm. |
Proposals
Article 1
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: Production and selling of GM crops is banned. Research is allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:20:08, February 21, 2006 CET | From |  Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Lift GM Reseach Ban |
| Message | We agree. Supported. |
| Date | 00:58:39, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Lift GM Reseach Ban |
| Message | Opposed. GM crops and technologies are a serious danger to normal food production. Should experiments escape the laboratory, they could destroy countless of farms. |
| Date | 00:58:45, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Lift GM Reseach Ban |
| Message | Opposed. GM crops and technologies are a serious danger to normal food production. Should experiments escape the laboratory, they could destroy countless farms. |
| Date | 01:02:00, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Lift GM Reseach Ban |
| Message | The food I just ate was probably genetically modified, and forced me to post twice. |
| Date | 02:32:59, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Beach Party | To | Debating the Lift GM Reseach Ban |
| Message | Err, how is it gonna escape a lab, grow legs and walk out? |
| Date | 00:55:48, February 23, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Lift GM Reseach Ban |
| Message | When you mess with pollen and seeds, for example, it's frighteningly easy for test samples to escape and wreak havoc. |
| Date | 20:44:01, February 23, 2006 CET | From | Beach Party | To | Debating the Lift GM Reseach Ban |
| Message | Why hasn't the RL world been overrun by this havoc pollen? |
| Date | 02:26:08, February 24, 2006 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Lift GM Reseach Ban |
| Message | Because it's a possibility, not a sure fire thing. Same reason why there has yet to be a nuclear war, and yet I'm a big fan of using all means to prevent any possibilities. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 293 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 113 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 194 |
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