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Bill: Bill NP-14: Ban The Use Of Chemical Pesticides Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Progress 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 5086
Description[?]:
| (This bill was proposed by the minister of Food and Agriculture Keith Murray) Chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are extremely dangerous. They poison our food, they poison our sea and lake, they poison our forest. We can't let our environment being detroyed like that. By banning chemical persticide, we will greatly improve our collective health.The use of chemical pesticide represent only a fraction of our agriculture system. There are many very succesfull farm that are very productive without using any chemical pesticides. We sincerely believe, that with the used of new technologies and GM crops, we can ban chemical pesticides without hurting significantly our agricultural industry. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: The government approves and regulates agricultural chemical use.
Current: Farmers are required to list chemicals used on their crops.
Proposed: Chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 133 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 53 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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