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Bill: LITP 2341 (ii) Personal Responsibility in consumption
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likaton Coalition of the Willing
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 2341
Description[?]:
| We feel that over-legislating the food market, whilst at the same time not regulating recreation drugs, is a ludicrous double standard. We propose that the following be listed: Genetically Modified Ingredients Chemicals used in food production Major Ingredients Any ingredient, additive, or product used that has a recognised allergy assocciated with it. We propose that this labelling has to be placed on the products packaging. We also propose that local government take resposibility for managing food standards, based on the needs of their communities, and that the sale of food within these provisions be unregulated. We also propose that recreational drugs are not allowed, except those that are naturally produced. We feel that this relaxation of some regulation will encourage our sitizens to think more carefully about what they are eating, and allow market forces, which are always more effective than legislative ones, to determine the nature of corporate involvement. |
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.
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 must be listed. There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients.
Current: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Proposed: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
Scope of food ingredient labeling (if present).
Old value:: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Current: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Proposed: Only the major ingredients and those with specific labelling requirements must be listed.
Article 4
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: Local governments determine food safety standards.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Licensing of food sales.
Old value:: Anyone may sell food, but shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Current: Anyone may sell food, but shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Proposed: The sale of food is unregulated.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Current: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Proposed: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:43:33, January 07, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the LITP 2341 (ii) Personal Responsibility in consumption |
| Message | We cannot vote for any bill that would allow stores to sell spoiled food. Note that it does not even require open dating of the food, such that consumers would not even know that they were purchasing spoiled food. We also see no advantage to allowing manufacturers to hide any ingredients, even though we will also admit that with the restrictions suggested it would be far from the worst thing, either. There is also a strange logic, we will admit, in the bill with respect to recreational drugs-- that if people could "spike" drugs with additional addicting ingredients and not list them clearly on the package, that limiting legal drugs to naturally occurring drugs would make some sense. However, we prefer not to regulate what drugs people can take, but instead make sure the buyer knows what he is getting. In the end, this bill in general does too little of letting the buyer know what he is getting. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 72 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 127 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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