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Bill: Farming Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Beluzian Defense and Federalist 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: August 2192
Description[?]:
| By allowing the use of chemicals on crops, farmers can produce more crops at a lower price. Food would then be cheaper for our citizens. We could grow more, so we would either import less or export more. In any case, it would be a good economic measure for our nation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: Chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are banned.
Current: Chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are banned.
Proposed: The government approves and regulates agricultural chemical use.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:44:31, February 27, 2006 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Farming Act |
| Message | What happens if the country faces a similar situation to the Irish Potato Famine? Will the government stick by its "principles" and let the country face starvation and financial ruin? |
| Date | 21:37:35, February 27, 2006 CET | From | LiberalDemocraticFreedomTaxAndSpendParty | To | Debating the Farming Act |
| Message | And what happens if the use of Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides lead to the destruction of the Beluzian environment? Then we would be in even more dire straights without any hope of recovery in the near term, since these poisons can survive in the environment for decades. |
| Date | 21:43:47, February 27, 2006 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Farming Act |
| Message | For a reasonable proportion of agricultural ground in the World some sort of chemical fertilizer is needed to stop the utter breakdown of the soil because of the plants draining the nutrients out the soil. Take Urea - a chemical - which is now banned - but you happily allow it to be 'flushed' into the environment. Talking of "dire straights" and "poisons" is showing that you have no REAL knowledge of what you are talking about and you only wish to play on the mass hysteria caused by misinformation and deception. |
| Date | 22:58:17, February 27, 2006 CET | From | Beluzian Defense and Federalist Party | To | Debating the Farming Act |
| Message | I am just doing what’s best for the people. Agra Chemicals don’t damage the environment bad enough to warrant a complete ban on them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 40 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 42 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 18 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "You will win, but you will not convince. You will win, because you possess more than enough brute force, but you will not convince, because to convince means to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack, reason and right in the struggle." - Miguel de Unamuno |