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Bill: Agricultural Chemicals Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Reform Coalition (FRP)
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 2077
Description[?]:
The market is an adequate regulator of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, however people must have access to information in order to make the decisions they think are best. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: There is no government oversight or regulation of pesticides.
Current: Farmers are required to list chemicals used on their crops.
Proposed: Farmers are required to list chemicals used on their crops.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:35:03, July 04, 2005 CET | From |  Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Agricultural Chemicals Bill |
| Message | if people decide that certain chemicals are not right for the environment then they can choose not to buy them, which will result in farmers changing their use of some chemicals. |
| Date | 15:50:12, July 04, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Chemicals Bill |
| Message | That's all very if people can afford to make the choice. But as always, the poor will be forced by economic circumstance to sacrifice their health and their ideals. |
| Date | 18:25:17, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Agricultural Chemicals Bill |
| Message | well, the whole point is that if you just eliminate them altogether, the price goes up across the board. in the case of food, it won't affect anyone as drastically as one might think. food is already inexpensive and large superstores maintain that low prices. Its also a matter of personal choice, some people refuse to eat food that has had any artificial chemicals added to it, other people simply don't care. clearly chemical fertilizers that cause damage to people are illegal already, (unless they count as recreational drugs, can anyone say "tomacco"!) We intend for this to be a law that lets the people know what is going into their bodies. people will have a choice, in fact they will have a better choice now becuase they are actually aware of what they are eating, |
| Date | 19:08:18, July 04, 2005 CET | From | Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Chemicals Bill |
| Message | Would this result in a "label", so to speak, that would provide information to the consumer in a uniform fashion? If that is how we are reading this, then it sounds like an acceptalbe idea. |
| Date | 00:07:18, July 05, 2005 CET | From | LibCom Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Chemicals Bill |
| Message | It would certainly be an improvement over the status quo, so we'd support this for now. |
| Date | 02:02:27, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Agricultural Chemicals Bill |
| Message | We haven't examined the options but will supprt this as a move at least in the right direction. |
| Date | 13:28:47, July 05, 2005 CET | From | Free Reform Coalition (FRP) | To | Debating the Agricultural Chemicals Bill |
| Message | In response to EM, yes it would result in a label, or at least a bit more information being printed on the "nutritional information" label that is on most food products. |
| Date | 20:25:02, July 06, 2005 CET | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Agricultural Chemicals Bill |
| Message | This will do for now. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 72 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 28 |
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