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Bill: Labeling Act of 2199
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rightist 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: September 2200
Description[?]:
| This act will force food labels to be somewhere on the packaging. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food and beverage labeling regulations.
Old value:: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Current: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Proposed: Companies are required to label food and beverage products somewhere on the package.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:35:26, March 14, 2006 CET | From | Social-Conservative party | To | Debating the Labeling Act of 2199 |
| Message | This would change things very very little, so we see no reason why to change.. Motivation please. |
| Date | 15:45:44, March 14, 2006 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Labeling Act of 2199 |
| Message | trying to make things easier on the consumer. |
| Date | 17:14:34, March 14, 2006 CET | From | Social-Conservative party | To | Debating the Labeling Act of 2199 |
| Message | But isn't it very easy if it says that they are labeled so that they are easily understood ? Instead of being "Somwhere" on the package ? |
| Date | 19:28:48, March 14, 2006 CET | From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Labeling Act of 2199 |
| Message | I would like to know how food labeling is easy to understand. It has always escaped me. |
| Date | 23:01:25, March 14, 2006 CET | From | Social-Conservative party | To | Debating the Labeling Act of 2199 |
| Message | The current one says "Current: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood." The new one says nothing about being easily understood, just htat it has to be labeled. The new proposal is a decrease in information. |
| Date | 18:08:19, March 15, 2006 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Labeling Act of 2199 |
| Message | The GLDS agrees with the SCP on this |
| Date | 18:15:47, March 15, 2006 CET | From | One Nation Socialist Party | To | Debating the Labeling Act of 2199 |
| Message | we shall support. But i don't see how this makes things easier for the consumer. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 115 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 127 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 57 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to prevent confusion by ensuring unofficial or outdated bills labelled as "Cultural Protocols" are removed from their nation page. |
| Random quote: "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." - Thomas Jefferson |