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Bill: Agricultural advancement bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Adam Smith 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: March 2083
Description[?]:
| Taking into consideration that the natural reproduction process of plants involves random and uncontrolled genetic modification, and considering that our farmers and horticulturists have used cross breeding techniques for centuries, we see no motivation whatsoever for the fear and irrational reaction to the idea that genetic modification should be managed by us rather than by chance. Thus it is proposed that we liberate genetic modification techniques in our nation. This will allow us to recover our food self sufficiency lost due to the changes in agricultural practice that has occurred in Kregon, it will eliminate the need to use a large number of pesticides, fungicides and other potentially harmful chemicals and will increase the income of our small farmers by increasing their crop yield. All products that are genetically modified or use genetically modified ingredients in their production shall be clearly labelled as such. The responsibility for ensuring that this labelling is correct lies with the packagers for national products or importers for imported goods. The labelling shall include a clear statement that the packaging or product has 'genetically modified contents' which shall be easily legible and clearly visible to the consumer. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning genetically modified (GM) crops.
Old value:: There is no policy concerning GM crops.
Current: Production and selling of GM crops is banned. Research is allowed.
Proposed: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:23:54, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Agricultural advancement bill |
| Message | CCF-Greens preference on this issue is given in our bill on GM foods. Obviously we oppose this one. |
| Date | 01:27:01, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Agricultural advancement bill |
| Message | ((Well that disproves Albert's theory in itself, as there are two bills on GM foods in debate at the moment.)) |
| Date | 05:05:00, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Agricultural advancement bill |
| Message | ((I can't add the proposal to mine. Which sucks.)) |
| Date | 07:17:31, July 17, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Agricultural advancement bill |
| Message | Could we add a consumer information(labelling) addition? |
| Date | 19:02:08, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Agricultural advancement bill |
| Message | Yes, and we have. |
| Date | 16:53:20, July 18, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Agricultural advancement bill |
| Message | ((Probably consensus on labelling could be achieved. Which makes it an even bigger shame the mods didn't add that proposal -- it was certainly suggested.)) |
| Date | 16:23:15, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Agricultural advancement bill |
| Message | Considering the Failure of the Equitista bill we will move this to vote. |
| Date | 00:15:59, July 20, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Agricultural advancement bill |
| Message | It would appear that no policy is wanted. One proposal to regulate failed, and this to deregulate is failing. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 190 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 247 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 13 |
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| Random quote: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater |