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Bill: Food Sales Deregulation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian 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: July 2201
Description[?]:
| An act to allow the sales companies to list what they see fit on their product. |
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: There are no laws concerning food and beverage labeling.
Article 2
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: There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients, or chemicals used in agrigulture or processing.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Food safety policy.
Old value:: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Current: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Proposed: There are no food standards provisions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:18:09, March 15, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Food Sales Deregulation |
| Message | Free speech works both ways, you should be free to say what you want, but you should also be free NOT to say what you dont want. This should equally apply to the market place. The companies will decide whether it is in their interest to fully discolse the contents of what they sell, and they will decide this based on the pressure placed upon them by the consumer. Free this area of the market and allow the consumer to wield the power the government currently misuses. |
| Date | 22:53:48, March 15, 2006 CET | From | Democratic-Republican Party | To | Debating the Food Sales Deregulation |
| Message | The people have chosen to have the government put forward these regulations. |
| Date | 06:45:39, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Hutori Freedom Party | To | Debating the Food Sales Deregulation |
| Message | No thanks. If a company puts something like tobocco or another addictive in its food and doesn't disclose that, and it addicts or kills people, the citizenry should know about it. |
| Date | 22:51:56, March 16, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Food Sales Deregulation |
| Message | They will do and soon no-one will buy it. Market forces! |
| Date | 11:35:31, March 17, 2006 CET | From | Northern Lights | To | Debating the Food Sales Deregulation |
| Message | Are we supoosed to be convinced by that silly slogan? |
| Date | 20:34:33, March 17, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Food Sales Deregulation |
| Message | Northern Lights: I would not be confident of convincing you of a sunrise given a time of 6AM and a brigh light on the eastern horizen! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 117 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 213 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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