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Bill: Food Safety
Details
Submitted by[?]: National People's Gang
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: July 2082
Description[?]:
| Regulation of GM |
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: Production and selling of GM crops is banned. Research is allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:02:55, July 17, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Food Safety |
| Message | General Motors? |
| Date | 19:04:31, July 17, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Food Safety |
| Message | Genetically modified. This is the same proposal i was planning to add to my bill on genetically modified foods, and now can't. |
| Date | 17:09:50, July 18, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Food Safety |
| Message | A negative proposal with no scientific basis. This is bad for the environment, bad for the economy and bad for the country. Can you say Luddite? |
| Date | 17:59:10, July 18, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Food Safety |
| Message | The arguments against are more detailed here: http://aiglesrv.no-ip.info:8085/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=9887 |
| Date | 04:26:48, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Food Safety |
| Message | You know, the Luddites have received a very bad press. It's not entirely fair. If they wanted to slow "progress" to a more human scale, and humanize it, and protect their lives and livelihood, were they necessarily all wrong? They were exercsing a very human and humanist impulse. That's not all bad. Thye modern world could use a little more luddism and a little less worship of science. However, caution on GM foods is merely prudence, not luddism. |
| Date | 15:46:25, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Food Safety |
| Message | We are concerned to hear the pro luddidte attitude being claimed by our minister for science and technology! The luddites wanted to retain an old and ineffective way of life. They were resisting change and were pro feudal society structure. Please do not say that the CCF prefers to have a liebge lord to a democratic government. It may have been a simpler, clearer life, one in which the peasant did not have to think so much, one in which manual labour was the basic coin of the realm rather than innovation or intellectual activity, but this does not make it better. Caution on GM foods would mean refusing to eat anything that is cultivated. If you wish to return to a hunter-gatherer life style we wish you luck, but we prefer the refinements of at least having an agricultural society. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 160 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 268 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 20 |
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