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Bill: Genetically Modified Crops Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Conservative 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: June 2084
Description[?]:
| Regarding geneticaly modified crops and foodstuffs. |
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: All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are 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 | 01:57:03, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservative Party | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | To continue the line of legislation started by our allowance of cloning. |
| Date | 02:13:12, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | We oppose; see our parallel bill for proposal. There is a huge difference the two fields. Until we are sure that what people put in their mouths is safe, only research should go ahead. |
| Date | 02:57:35, July 17, 2005 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | OOC: This one has kinda crappy options. We would be most in favour of a labelling system. Anyway... We would support this over the DS bill and would really prefer there was only one for convenience's sake. |
| Date | 03:45:40, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservative Party | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | We think that as GMC's will be more resistant to disease/insects etc. and will be engineered to have greater nutritional value at a cost much less than 'normal crops' they will be able to help many poor people. Also normal food crops will become expensive only in comparison to GMC's as a result of their lower properties in hardiness etc. (harder to produce). OOC: yes we agree with you LLP, also would like to see government regulation (as FDA). |
| Date | 04:14:49, July 20, 2005 CET | From | Family First Party | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | What are the other options available? |
| Date | 05:32:30, July 21, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservative Party | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed. Production and selling of GM crops is banned. Research is allowed. Research and selling imported GM crops is allowed. Production is prohibited. All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops is banned. |
| Date | 03:08:44, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | Theres a new option which we support wholeheartedly: "All activities related to production, selling or researching of GM crops are allowed. Products containing GM food have to mention this on a label." |
| Date | 05:29:37, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Conservative Party | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | LLP AND ALL CONCERNED: THE BILL HAS BEEN AMMENDED. |
| Date | 10:42:32, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Family First Party | To | Debating the Genetically Modified Crops Act |
| Message | On the basis that any regulation is better than no regulation, we will support this bill. However, we would like to more closely examine this issue at a later date. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 252 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 94 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 74 |
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