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Bill: Food Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Independent Freedom 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 2218
Description[?]:
| A Bill to ease hyper-regulation on the food industry |
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 encouraged by the government to label food and beverage products.
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: 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 | 10:50:10, April 20, 2006 CET | From | Social Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Food Bill |
| Message | The current regulations are reasonable and provide protection for the consumer to a greater degree than the proposals on offer. This bill will not have our support. |
| Date | 11:01:26, April 20, 2006 CET | From |  Gil's Green party | To | Debating the Food Bill |
| Message | We do not support this bill. Encouraging does NOT work with companies who want to make money. With the current regulations they can't hide ingredients customers don't like, if they do we can punish them. |
| Date | 15:04:56, April 21, 2006 CET | From | Lodamun Humanist Party | To | Debating the Food Bill |
| Message | "We highly object to this bill. The current system is in place for a purpose - to prevent unscrupulous, exploitative companies for concealing cheap, unhealthy ingredients in fancy packaging and marketing hype. Our vote will be 'No', and if this law is passed, all companies who do not continue on the old, mandatory labelling will be boycotted and sued, as well as their product analysed and the multitude of imperfections shown to the world." |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 88 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 40 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 73 |
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