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Bill: Food Labelling (GM Ingredient) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Liberal Alliance (NLA)
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: March 4427
Description[?]:
| A Bill to remove regulatory requirements to disclose genetically modified ingredients on the packaging of food products. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Current: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Proposed: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing must be listed. There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:55:52, July 19, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Alliance (NLA) | To | Debating the Food Labelling (GM Ingredient) Act |
| Message | We are a enlightened nation, that prides itself on scientific advancement and evidence based policy. It is therefore an anachronism and an oddity that we require the labelling of chemical and GM ingredients on food products. There is simply no evidence, especially with our food safety standards, that chemical or GM ingredients pose any danger to anybody. It is important that government reflects scientific consensus, and it would attract investment in the food industry. The New Liberal Alliance will present proposals to the Socialist government to remove the requirement for food products to specifically disclose chemical and GM ingredients. Zandra Arnold Leader of the New Liberal Alliance |
| Date | 06:30:56, July 20, 2018 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Food Labelling (GM Ingredient) Act |
| Message | The Socialist Party would be inclined to support this bill, if the authors removed the language about chemical ingredients from the description and added language that made disclosure of GM and other controversial ingredients voluntary. We believe that disclosure of chemicals used to produce food is important information for consumers to make intelligent choices in the marketplace. For example: Under the current language, there would be no requirement on food makers to label Monosodium Glutimate and Hydrogenated transfats used in production of their foods. We know that those products are cheap, but they are also incredibly unhealthy, and there IS science to back that up. Consumer awareness of those ingredients has led to consumer pressure to force food manufacturers to abandon those highly processed chemicals all together in their production, and turn to more natural ingredients. Such a consumer outcry and a change in food manufacturing was possible because of labeling and consumer education. Sure, food manufacturers had to incur higher costs, but the result was better health for Kalistani citizens. We think consumers should know what they are eating. Perhaps the solution is to stop thinking of GM crops as controversial. What does the NLA Speaker think of this compromise? We yield Abdulaziz al-Khali Socialist Party of Kalistan Premier of the Republic |
| Date | 09:14:49, July 20, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Alliance (NLA) | To | Debating the Food Labelling (GM Ingredient) Act |
| Message | The New Liberal Alliance is pleased to have found common ground on food labelling regulation. We accept the Socialist Party's amendment, and request that the new proposal be moved to a vote. Riordan Hardwick Food & Agriculture Spokesperson, New Liberal Alliance |
| Date | 14:28:58, July 20, 2018 CET | From | Socialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK) | To | Debating the Food Labelling (GM Ingredient) Act |
| Message | So Moved and seconded. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 750 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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